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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: Don Judy <hsaller@epix.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 22:35:34 GMT
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David Cantrell wrote:
>
>
> I just got a PDP-11. Those machines really *were* used for
> controlling nuclear reactors. Amongst other things. Mine, however,
> never did anything more glamourous than routing parcels for a
> nationwide courier service.
If it was used at 3-Mile Island in March 1979 it would be a star!
Or at least notorious. There's nothing like having the morning
traffic report contain a reference to a nuclear catastrophe.
That'll wake you up.
dj