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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?



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