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From: sherwin@video.dec.com (JIM SHERWIN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: DEC Robin
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Date: 13 Oct 89 13:50:03 GMT
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In article <Added.UZBDWKi00UkT0SH09O@andrew.cmu.edu>, HELM@GRIN1.BITNET ("Pen ", Helm,James Pendleton) writes...
>Does anyone know what a DEC Robin is?  (was?)
>     
>Thanks in advance,
>helm@grin1.bitnet

	The DEC ROBIN was an upgrade to a VT100 terminal, transforming it
	into a 64K CP/M micro. It supported 1 or 2 dual-floppies as
	storage media.

	If my memory is reasobaly accurate, it arose out of a skunk-works
	type development effort, over a period of 6 months, sometime in
	late '83 or early '84.

	With the introduction of the Rainbow, these quickly became very
	effective paper weights or boat anchors.

	Jim