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Subject: Re: sour apples - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Aug 20 06:40:00 1983


The Apple ad might be wrong in any case: didn't IBM come out with a
semi-portable non-micro-based minicomputer?  One of Harry Katzan's ghost-
written tomes describes it.

We had one here at the UCB computer center.  A funny little thing,
with a rocker switch (!) marked "BASIC" on one side, and "APL" on
the other.  (They share a lot of matrix code, I guess.)  I don't
remember just when it came out; I'm fairly sure that it was before
Apple or Trash-80, but probably after Altair.

I don't think it took off.

	Equivocally,
		Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)