Some history : DEC VT-180 (Robin), IBM PC (Worm), Apple...

From: Claude.W <claudew_at_videotron.ca>
Date: Thu May 24 00:02:15 2001

Hi all.

Anybody ever heard about this? I found it amusing...

I was told by a longtime local DEC employee that DEC came out with the ROBIN
(VT-180) to compete with IBM PC and Apple II. He (and other DEC employees)
were told this by DEC top management:

"The system we wanna target is the Apple II and IBM is coming out with a new
computer (IBM PC) code named WORM because it will eat up the Apple. Well, we
are coming out with the computer named ROBIN (VT-180) beacause its gonna eat
the WORM that ate the Apple...IBM is a 16 bit machine with almost no
software running MSDOS, we will be running Z80 CP/M with thousands of
available programs"

Hmmm....Now I know where the name Robin came from...

BTW if anyone need this, I have the full schematics for the robin somewhere
around here...

Claude
http://computer_collector.tripod.com
Received on Thu May 24 2001 - 00:02:15 BST

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