Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:01:03 -0500 From: Alan Clegg <alan@clegg.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <20001114080103.A34676@diskfarm.firehouse.net> In-Reply-To: <200011141250.eAECnuL07140@mobile.wemm.org>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:49:56PM %2B0800 References: <200011121935.MAA26831@gw.doug.net> <200011141250.eAECnuL07140@mobile.wemm.org>
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Unless the network is lying to me again, Peter Wemm said: > Dont forget the Tandy/Radio Shack Model 16. It was a 68000 based Xenix box > with a Z80 "IO coprocessor". It was commercially produced and marketed. > You could have three terminals, and (wait for it) 8 inch floppys (with three > external drives) and even a 5 or 10MB *hard disk*... :-) > > I actually threw out my catalog that had photos and details from about the > 1983-84 era. I did tech support for these monsters. Biggest problem was they had a BAD habit of overwriting their boot sector. We'd charge people $175 to tell them how to 'dd' a new boot sector to their floppies. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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