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Article #4313Re: And you though computers were safe
From: a... Alan T. Krantz
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 14:00
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 14:00
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In article <1990Sep...@phi.ap.co.umist.ac.uk> r...@phi.ap.co.umist.ac.uk (bob nutter) writes: >The monitors for Sirius PC's (a sort of MS-DOS machine, ugh!) were Why ugh? These were great machines for the time. They had non-linear floppy disks (1.2m) long before apple (or the apple hype); high resolution monitors (800 by 400) (I think they predated herc cards) and software loadable fonts. Greate machines for graphics (if not a bit on the slow side). Of course they bomb by putting the frame buffers in low memory where DOS loads a program. ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Mail: 1830 22nd street Email: a...@boulder.colorado.edu| | Apt 16 Vmail: Home: (303) 939-8256 | | Boulder, Co 80302 Office: (303) 492-8115 | ------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!boulder!atk From: a...@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Alan T. Krantz) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: And you though computers were safe Message-ID: <25684@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 5 Sep 90 14:00:59 GMT References: <2915@amc-gw.amc.com> <1990Sep4.152310@phi.ap.co.umist.ac.uk> Sender: ne...@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: a...@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Alan T. Krantz) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 18 Posted: Wed Sep 5 15:00:59 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit