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Re: Geared Down, Low Cost Power IBM i Box Rumored - How Low Can You Go?

I remember driving 20 miles to borrow a 1200-baud modem to replace the 300baud acoustic coupler I had to use to do some remote work in St.Louis from Los Angeles. What a difference! Worth the drive.


On 2/7/2017 9:28 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
Hey - I have a dual diskette drive for my C64! And that screaming 1200 baud modem! Loved watching those characters crawl across the screen when connected to a bulletin board!

On 2/7/2017 11:24 AM, Holger Scherer wrote:
We do CISC hosting - maybe we find some way for some old
Commodore C64 boxes for the rockets? ;-)

-h

Am 07.02.2017 um 18:20 schrieb Gerald Magnuson <gmagqcy.midrange@xxxxxxxxx>:

I just read a Q & A somewhere:
Q: Why can't we build Saturn 5 rockets for Mars missions?
A: they were designed to work on 8bit 64k software...




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