> 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...
Actually the WORM was supposedly the codename for the Xerox 820
CP/M box. At least that's what the Robin Owners Group and DEC told me.
>
>
> BTW if anyone need this, I have the full schematics for the robin somewhere
> around here...
>
I've got one in the garage I promised to David Betz...
If I ever get done with enough stuff to get it checked and packed...
> Claude
> http://computer_collector.tripod.com
>
>
Bill
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Received on Thu May 24 2001 - 07:22:14 BST