Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Top ten computers BETTER than amiga Message-ID: <1991May9.045708.27480@ncsu.edu> Date: 9 May 91 04:57:08 GMT References: <1991May8.233606.14096@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 21 >> Lee Sailer mentions the Ohio Scientific 3 in 1 machine > > Wasn't that called the Dimension 68000, and didn't it run MS-DOS, CP/M, > and Apple software. Hmmm seems to me it did have a 68000 chip though. > Maybe it was an 8088, 6502 and 68000. Does anyone remember? There was a Dimension 68000 (a friend of mine bought one). I can't recall if it did software emulation only, or used hardware cards to emulate the Apple and CP/M machines. Drat, I _just_ threw away a huge article on it!! Had been saving the info for years in case someone like you asked... and had finally decided no one remembered the thing at all. It figures . The Dimension was a cool idea, but unfortunately was fairly unstable, expensive, and badly marketed... and passed out of sight rather quickly. The Ohio Scientific machine tho, was the C3 series. It had a 6502, Z80, and 6800. Came standard in 1981 with 48K RAM, dual 8" floppies, and the ones I saw were always rackmounted. It was supposed to support up to 8 users at a time. A company local to me used to sell/program them. Prices ran from about $7,000-14,000. Top models had a 23Meg hard disk. best - kevin