Computers Manufactured in 1986

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Tue Apr 2 16:47:23 2002

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:25:30PM -0500, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Derek Peschel wrote:

> > > Pardon the ignorance here,
> > >
> > > But which would you guys consider to be the most modernly functional one
> > > of the 1986 bunch?
> >
> > Well, some of them are ancestors of modern machines -- the Mac II of the
> > modern Macs, the Kaypro 2000 of modern PC clones (I believe), and the
> > RS/6000 of modern IBM UNIX workstations. So you could choose the most
> > compatible ones.
>
> Modern IBM UNIX workstations *are* RS/6000's. The RS/6000 wasn't out back
> then. The IBM RT/PC was the UNIX workstation from IBM at the time.

Someone mentioned RS/6000s and I just assumed that was right. Oops.

-- Derek
Received on Tue Apr 02 2002 - 16:47:23 BST