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From: black@ll-null.ll.mit.edu (Jerry Glomph Black)
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Subject: Refuge for Hacker Nostalgists
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Date: 13 Nov 90 14:49:59 GMT
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I've spent years with CP/M and Z-System machines & software, and I still
use both my BigBoard I  and several SB180s running Z-software.  The BigBoard
has been lobotomized to boot up as a terminal for the other systems.

Anyway, when the urge arises, I do my software & hardware hacking on my
Amiga 500!  The system is ultra-open, and allows all sorts of hardware &
software hacks, with color video, and 4-channel sound.  A real deal
for $500., comes with floppy, 1 Meg Ram, now bundled with the AmigaVision
audio-video authoring s/w which is pretty decent.  Also, the O/S is virtually
all on the ROM (256kB), so you get to use more than 93% of the RAM. For
mouse-haters (and Mac-haters)like me, you almost NEVER have to use it.

I have no connection with the mfr., I just like to play with this machine.
Jerry Black, black@MICRO.LL.MIT.EDU