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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
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Subject: Re: A rough future for the Amiga??? I think not.
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Date: 10 Apr 90 00:36:12 GMT
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[Kent Polk commented on the PET and the 8050 disk drive.]

That was an interesting disk drive.  It was intelligent with its own
processors.  (We had one networked to 10 SuperPETs; worked like a charm.
Have you ever networked a floppy drive?)

Here's another one for Commodore:  SuperPET's language support.  Has to
be the only machine I have ever seen that included support for an
interpreted COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, APL...

-Michael

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