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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: David Cantrell <usenet-20010705@barnyard.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 15:44:27 +0100
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:28:26 +0000, spike1@freenet.co.uk said:
>supportUSA.com <incoming@supportusa.com> did eloquently scribble:
>> I guess I would suggest you build it based around the Timex Sinclair
>> ZX-80...That's worth $300, and it's really powerful too!
>
>Well it is!
>It could power a nuclear powerstation!
>It must be true. It was in the adverts.
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.
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David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david