DG and not DG (was: More books for the library)

From: Kip Crosby <engine_at_chac.org>
Date: Fri Feb 6 12:55:06 1998

At 10:25 2/6/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Here's an interesting tidbit. Apparently Data General made a line of
>computers dubbed "The Digital Group". According to this entry in the
>table, they were systems based on the Z-80, 8080A, 9080A, 6800 and 6502
>processors; they had 2K of main memory; they used cassettes for storage.
>Can anyone verify this?

digital group (properly all-lc) had nothing to do with Data General. They
were a fanatical mail-order vendor of their own micro and peripheral kits,
led (the operative word) by a Dr. Robert Suding and located somewhere in
Arizona (?) The computers had multiple processors for maximum software
compatibility; the designs were arcane as hell, making the kits difficult
to construct.

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