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Re: Apple II in an unexpected place



rtk wrote:
On Dec 9, 10:38 pm, "winston19842...@yahoo.com"
<winston19842...@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Dec 9, 11:36 pm, rtk <oneelkr...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Seen while browsing ThinkGeek.com:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/ae43/zoom/
The kit is cool enough, but check out the monitor they used!
Ron
Ha - I already own the cool Apple monitor!

That makes two of us!

I'm still thinking about the kit, though.  Has anyone worked with the
propeller chip and Spin?

Not yet, but it's on my "gotta get one" list, for reasons you can guess!
;-)

The fully synchronous shared memory model offers many of the same
attractions as an SMP Apple II--tightly coupled processes interacting
with precise timing!  (I expect that need for precise timing puts me
into the assembly language category.)

-michael

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