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Subject: Re: The New Chips
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Date: 7 Feb 88 20:25:43 GMT
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In article <19753@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
>Along the same lines, most PC users don't know that the "IBM PC" was
>IBM's second attempt at a "personal" computer.  The first was called
>the System/23 or "Datamaster".  I don't recall the IBM product number.
>Take a look at the specs:
>[Goes on to describe the beast]
>jim frost
>madd@bu-it.bu.edu

Along the same lines, I recall with fondness my days developing software
on 5110s and 5120s, precursors (I believe) to the 23.  Back then I saw a
23 demoed, and it seemed to have all the hideousness of the 51X0. 
*Very* similar machines. 

Much to my horror, last week an employer asked me to visit a client, a
local accounting firm, which had *three* 5110s from 1979 running a *bad*
payroll system.  It all came back to me, like a nightmare, like deja vu.
 The poor guy wouldn't accept the term "obsolete" to be used anywhere in
his offices.  We're working on him, suggesting some kind of way to
write off his $18K 1979 investment.

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| Cliff Joslyn, Mad Cybernetician
| Systems Science Department, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
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