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From: news@haddock.ima.isc.com (overhead)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer
Keywords: VAX, ha ha
Message-ID: <18429@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 4 Oct 90 18:18:30 GMT
References: <2721@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11791@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: suitti@anchovy.UUCP (Stephen Uitti)
Organization: Interactive Systems Co
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In article <11791@pucc.Princeton.EDU> EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
>...All are even numbers
>save for one.  This is the "Electrologica X8", with "27 bits per cell."
>I have never heard anything else about this machine, which sounds
>like a vacuum cleaner.

From the Jan 18th, 1990 Boston Globe:

                        Now, Lechmere is
                        not only selling
                     the incredible VAX, (R)
                       they're giving them
                            away too.

Stephen Uitti
suitti@ima.ima.isc.com