[ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?

Alan Lord (News) alanslists at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 09:51:11 BST 2010


On 27/08/10 09:27, Sean Miller wrote:
> Well, assuming that we are not seriously going to blow up any
> machines... I wonder how Research Machines managed to become nothing
> more than Windows enforcers?  When I was at school we had the classic
> RML-380Z
>
> For those who are too young to remember, there's a contemporary review here...
>
> http://vt100.net/rm/380z_review

Cool - My Dad ran the entire London region BT Vehicle Fleet (~13,000) on 
one of these with a programme he wrote in BASIC. He had the FDS-2 Dual 
Floppy system! He used to bring it home at weekends.

I'll send that link to him - That'll make him smile...

Cheers

Al


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