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From: unk
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On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:47:11 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 15:31:31 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote:
>>
>> On 8/9/2018 1:45 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>>> Elliott Roper <nos...@yrl.co.uk> writes:
>>>
>>>> Thanks. Unbounded nostalgia. Was there ever a more elegant computer
>>>> than a PDP-11?
>>>
>>> Yes, many.
>>
>> *Not* that I disagree...  but which other computers do you find
>> elegant???
> 
> Personally I would say the Zenith Z-100 from 1982
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Z-100>. Because it had two CPUs
> (8085 8Bit and 8088 16Bit) so the user could run either CP/M or the so
> called Z-DOS. Although this was not compatible with MS-DOS there was a
> nice software library available.


I had a Xerox 16/8 - z80 and 8088 with their own RAM, HD, a very nice cp/
m machine. It had a mouse port on the back of the keyboard - which 
worked, one of the standard Logitech units plugged right in.

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