The definition of On Topic

From: Lawrence Wilkinson <ljw-cctech_at_ljw.me.uk>
Date: Mon Jan 31 02:05:41 2005

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 23:35, Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
> Yeah, if I recall, last time we had this thread someone brought up Forth being
> used in a Lotus.
>
> Ummm, that's Lotus the British sports car company, not Lotus the software
> company!

Hmmm, maybe that was me. In the mid '90s I worked for the company which
made the dashboard for the Elise, and it is indeed based on a 68HC11
running Forth. The company is 'Stack' (http://www.stackltd.com) - now
you see where the name comes from. See
<http://www.lotus-elise.nl/Mods/Radar_Detector/BlueStack/body_bluestack.html> for what the innards look like - there are two stepper motors for the dials.

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