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- From: hanway@ekfido.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: x86 must die it's over-priced junk
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 22:26:27 GMT
- Organization: Eastman Kodak Company
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- Dave Haynie (dave.haynie@scala.com) wrote:
- : These first hobby computers were expensive and didn't do much. For
- : example, you could get the Heath with 4K of RAM and a front-panel hex
- : pad for programming,
-
- Actually, the H8's LED display and keypad was in octal, the one true radix
- for programming the 8080A.
-
- (I know, it's a minor nit, but it's not every day that I get to correct
- Dave Haynie.)
-
- --
- Ed Hanway <hanway@ekfido.kodak.com>
- Eastman Kodak - Motion Picture & Television Imaging, Cineon Development
- Opinions expressed are my own, except the ones which aren't.
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