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From: cyaa01@mixcom.UUCP (Chris Klausmeier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: REAL Commodore Hardware
Message-ID: <115@mixcom.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 90 23:07:31 GMT
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In article <16611@cbmvax.commodore.com> karl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Karl Herrman - CATS) writes:

/ Commodore made office furniture at the same time they made computers.  Remember
/ that the PET and its disk drives had a metal case.  The same factory was used to
/ make desks, file cabinets, shelves, computer tables etc...  This was all done
/ up in Canada.

Did Commodore ever make armored trucks? Those 8250's and similar dual
disk drives were built like them! :-) I didn't believe a friend who told
me that they were so heavy-duty until I saw one. Those 8250's were great
though... 2 megs, never got hot like my SFD or 1541's did. 

/ Karl Herrmann
/ C.A.T.S.
/ Software Specialist
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[] Chris Klausmeier -- cyaa01@mixcom.UUCP []
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