OT: PC Motherboard with a vacuum tube

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Fri Sep 6 10:36:00 2002

Gary Hildebrand wrote:
> "Feldman, Robert" wrote:
>
>>Sufficiently retro to be interesting.
>
>
> I saw the article in Poptronics. Instead of looking for CMOS raam, can
> you see the owner of that board looking for a 12AT7 at the local Radio
> Shack???

Well if they still sold real hi-fi they might. If they still sold real
parts too you might find CMOS ram even. Still upset over RS for not designing
the COCO as the REAL computer rather than selling all the Z80 trash**.
Nobody in the USA made a nice 6809 machine. Mind you in hindsight 64k ram
is too small many real problems on a computer. Split code and data (64k)
is better but I don't think the 6809 would let you do that.
** one mans trash is another mans ...
Received on Fri Sep 06 2002 - 10:36:00 BST