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- From: bruce@rpl.regina.sk.ca (Bruce Welch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: First multitasking OS for home computers
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 01:59:00 GMT
- Organization: You Must Be Kidding
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- In article <peterk.0k0r@combo.ganesha.com>, Dr. Peter Kittel wrote:
-
- :Huh? A colleague at our physics institute had a thing called
- :OSI Superboard II. It was a one-board computer similar to Commodore's
-
- That was the OSI kit without a case, fan, etc. Same as the Challenger I
-
-
- :PET 20001, where a (normal) keyboard sat directly on the mainboard
- :like the AIM-20. It was dirt cheap and fun to tinker with (my friend
- :overclocked it from 1 MHz to 2.5, i.e. 250 %...).
-
- Yeah, some hack!!! You had to switch back to 1 MHz to read and write the
- floppy, then "turbo" the sucker before running the program.
-
- :
- :> It was a nice system though.:-) Geez, the thing nearly
- :>needed a small bedroom to put it in.:-)
- :
- :They obviously built more than one model...
-
- They were all the same size. However, by the time you were finished
- adding all the neat hardware hacks and sound boards and whatever, you
- were spread out all over the bedroom and had a BIG do not enter sign on
- the door. It was possible to put it all back into the case, but why
- bother when you were only going to take it apart again to tweak a pot to
- get a better sounding "hawngk" for the game in progress :-).
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