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From: brennan@merk.UUCP (Rich Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: encore hoststation
Summary: Hogstations.
Message-ID: <514@merk.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 89 06:23:40 GMT
References: <31225@news.Think.COM> <7588@xenna.Xylogics.COM>
Reply-To: brennan@merk.UUCP (Rich Brennan)
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Organization: Darkside Systems
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In article <7588@xenna.Xylogics.COM> loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) writes:
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>You won't find any more HostStations.  They are a long dead product;
>the only concentrations of them are at Encore and with the Annex group
>at Xylogics.

They were the worlds largest vt220. Had their own easily measurable
gravitational field. Hey, they were big, but they were slow!

>	      As they die, one by one, we give them a burial at sea.

  And people are worried about the melting polar caps raising the water
levels at the coasts! Tossing a couple of HostStations into the sea
should excite some people.

>The HostStation has a 19" screen, two/three rs232 ports, and used a
>VT220-style keyboard.

It also should has its own zipcode (bah dump bump).

Rumor has it that one recently fell off a desk in the Santa Cruz, CA.
area (bah dump bump).


Just kidding, all you alumni of Resolution....


Rich.
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