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From: mrush@csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  GVP Trade-in
Message-ID: <1990Sep03.215434.21217@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 90 21:54:34 GMT
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In article <14069@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) writes:
>In article <552@DIALix.UUCP> bernie@DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes:
>
>>(Real computers have flashing lights, front panel switches, 8K RAM  and
>>hard-sectored floppies - anybody recognize this?)
>
>	Yes, except that's randomly-accessible tape drives, none of those
>new-fangled disk things.  To boot them, you have to toggle in a boot
>module in octal and run it.  Also, they have 12-bit words. ;-)

	Gee, you have randomly-accessible tape?  How did you get the machine
to automatically rewind the paper tape?        :-)

	-- Matt

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