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From: denber.wbst@Xerox.COM
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Subject: Re: Anyone still use 1100s?
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Date: 16 May 88 14:24:00 GMT
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	"does anyone still use Xerox 1100 machines?"

Yes, in fact I have what I claim is the largest remaining collection of 1100's
(aka Dolphin or D0) in the world: two fully functional and three in various
stages of disrepair.

The 1100 really is a rather interesting machine.  You can run Smalltalk and
Cedar on it, as well as Lisp (Koto runs just fine), XDE (Mesa), and most Alto
programs (but not all, especially Clint Parker's Alto games).  The hardware
directly supports a color display (640 x 480, 4 bits/pixel) in parallel with the
17" b/w screen.  You can run both 3 meg. and 10 meg. Ethernet boads on it.  It
takes up to 2 meg. of memory and has an internal 29 meg. hard disk (the
controller will support two drives).  Also parallel and serial ports (Lisp only
supports the parallel port, but there's a parallel to serial converter you can
add).  It also uses the wonderful Alto keyboard that accepts the famous 5-key
keyset.  You can debug the hardware remotely via an Alto attached to the
parallel port.

Any other 1100's left?  After all, this dl *is* called info-*1100*.

			- Michel