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From: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long)
Keywords: history, pc, workstation
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Date: 1 Aug 88 21:05:11 GMT
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In article <1238@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
>
>....  Jobs has said that when he was looking for a chip, the 6809
>was really expensive, and the 6502 was really cheap.

I thot Jobs really wanted to use RCA's 1802.  ?

My Cosmac-clone (anyone remember the BYTE ads for the Quest ELF?) was
one of the funnest toys I ever had.  16 absolutely general-purpose
16bit registers, etc. etc...

-scott