Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cbmvax!drysdale From: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Mac jokes.. Message-ID: <21870@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 24 May 91 06:24:49 GMT References: <213@touch.touch.com> <1991May23.060611.24078@ncsu.edu> Reply-To: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 24 In article <1991May23.060611.24078@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: >mikeh@touch.touch.com (Mike Haas) writes: > >> Yeah. The coco was cool. 6809 running OS/9! Very, Very good. 'course, >> not much happening with it these days. > >The Amiga slant to this message is: too bad CBM doesn't have the "store >next to each MacDonald's" sales outlets that Tandy does. And conversely, >it's too bad Tandy never brought out a home 68K machine. Now they've gone >fully Intel, and it's a pity. sigh - kev >[Architect of the sidelined CoCo OS-9 ver 3.0 upgrade... 'twas way cool :-] but tandy *did* have a home 68K machine. ever heard of the model 16? basically a model II (big TRS-80 with 8" disks built in) with a 68000 board running xenix. this was back in 80-81 or so. she was not cheap. --Scotty -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Scott Drysdale Software Engineer Commodore Amiga Inc. UUCP {allegra|burdvax|rutgers|ihnp4}!cbmvax!drysdale PHONE - yes. "Have you hugged your hog today?" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=