the new Apple iMac

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri May 8 13:15:26 1998

On Fri, 8 May 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:

> <But I remember one computer from the early 80's (don't remember the name)
> <where the floppy was the computer -- a small SBC mounted on top of the
> <floppy, and that's all there was.
>
> AmproLB a complete z80, 64k, 2serial, printer port and SCSI on a board
> the size of a 5.25" floppy. I have one.
>
> I also have a SB180 that is faster with 4x the ram on a card half the
> size.
>
> Neither stepped around the problem by putting all of the base software on
> rom. The EPSON PX-8 did. I also did it for a s100 system years before
> that. With EPROMS, EEProms and Flash ram as dense as they are a 1.44mb
> floppy seems a lot of work.
>
> Allison
 
I learned from a friend who picked it up (for $3.10) at the swapmeet that
HP made a lunchbox that had HP-UX all in ROM. No drives in the box.

                                                 - don
Received on Fri May 08 1998 - 13:15:26 BST