My, what an interesting find today. I just hope the boys were able to find a
taxi, or it will have ended up on a dirty road in the middle of nowhere.
The beast I'm referring to is an RC855, made by Regnecentralen of Denmark.
It's a brown and beige (which seems to have been the colours of choice for all
Scandinavian computers, whether Luxor, Tandberg or Regnecentralen =) tiltable
screen with a sturdy stand into which a microcomputer is fit. It also came
with two eight-inch floppy drives, which someone with a sick sense of humour
has named "Picollo". I also managed to find two floppies, one of which seems
to contain CP/M. Urgh. Couldn't it have been something more interesting?
Nevertheless, it's Danish, so I like it.
The floppies are daisychained on a D36. There are also two serial ports, a
detachable keyboard and some kind of network port, IIRC a three or four-pin
DIN connector.
Among other finds were a C64C, an Atari 520STFM (yawn) and two small Memorex
Telex boxes with VGA out and twinax networking. Some kind of terminals
apparently, these seem to have been used in a cinema booking system.
There was also a DECwriter IV there, but I had to leave it since some people
think VGA monitors are more fun than 300 bps hard copy terminals. =)
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
When cherry tree blooms, people go and walk there, eat dumpling, bring sake
and talk each other such things as "A superb view!" and "Full of spring here",
and they become very happily and cheerful. But this is a lie. People gather
below cherry trees and get drunk, vomit, fight, which are happening since the
old days of Edo period. From long time ago.
THE FULL OF CHERRY BOOLMS, CHAPTER 1
Received on Sat Aug 18 2001 - 20:50:55 BST