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- From: andy@laguna.santafe.edu (Andy Mell)
- Subject: Re: Acorn v Research Machines
- Message-ID: <9t=s#gp@SantaFe.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 02:04:57 GMT
- Organization: Santa Fe Institute
- References: <1993Jan22.122421.25655@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.123339.25009@aston.ac.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan22.123339.25009@aston.ac.uk> thompsmr@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Thompson) writes:
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- >
- > However, the older RMs (The RML380Z or whatever) were put to good use
- >in the computer room - as foot rests.
- >
- > RM #1 in education? Yeah, right.
-
- Hey! I learnt to program on a 380Z before BBC micros came out, the 380Z is
- a great computer. Well, great for its time anyway. it had a built in machine
- code monitor which you could activate with ctrl-W or some other key.
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- You could get disc drives, and high res colour graphics addons for them too.
-
- Andy
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