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- From: connor@nexus.yorku.ca (James Connor)
- Subject: Re: World's Toughest Computers
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- Organization: York University
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:57:39 GMT
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- pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
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- |Jared Dahl (jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
- |: Which computers do you consider the most rugged? Why?
- |: What are some stories that you have heard about them?
- |:
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- |Although they're really basically educational CP/M boxes from the mid
- |eighties, I heard about a couple of Research Machines Link 480Zs which were
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
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- I heard a story about this very kind of machine, from an edition of
- Personal Computer World ( a prominent British 'zine )...a trawler, off the
- coast of the north of England, pulled up two slimy seaweed covered boxes
- in its nets which, when cleaned, turned out to be Link 480Z's, one of which
- still worked ! (wish I could remember what i did with that mag...)
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- CHEERS !!!!
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