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From: nsw@cord.UUCP (N Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MIDI in BASIC?
Message-ID: <551@cord.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 14:40:56 GMT
References: <4040001@hpesrgd.HP.COM> <45151@sun.uucp> <786@nuchat.UUCP> <350@brambo.UUCP> <848@nuchat.UUCP> <3003@gryphon.CTS.COM> <590@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: nsw@cord.UUCP (59455-N Weinstock)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner
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Keywords: .recreational
Summary: Sorry, I couldn't resist

In article <590@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP writes:
>Nah, REAL programmers use Burroughs B-300's.  20 power supplies (all
>adjustable), 2K core memory, n-thousand gold-plated plug-in modules 1"x1"x2"
>full of resistors, capacitors, and usually a single transistor.
>Program through the front panel, not even in hex or octal, but in "base
>burroughs", a combination of base 12 and base 10.

Sounds great.  Where can I get one?  I'm looking to upgrade from an ST.

Heh heh, it's only a *joke* folks...