26 Mar
1997
26 Mar
'97
10:52 a.m.
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Greetings, Roger! Wow, the Machine Room just got a mention! I'm honoured
(substitute honored, depending on location). :-)
The Laser 200 pic is really horrible, it's from a Greek (!) mag circa
1984, all in black and white and very small. I know I've seen a colour ad
for the critter, but I can't locate it.
Btw, since it's URL time, may I suggest the /new/ URL for the Machine
Room:
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~alexios/MACHINE-ROOM/
It's even nicer to nice browsers (i.e. Lynx) and contains more machines
(68 right now).
Check out this URL:
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~axc/MACHINE-ROOM/welcome.html
the Database isn't overly huge, and doesn't have database, or auto-add, or
any of that jazz, but it's got a beautiful layout and some really strange
machines in it (including a pic & listing for the Video Technology Laser
200...
Cool! Thanks, I'll check that out. I'm becoming more interested in Video Technology
Ltd. It seems they made
a lot of computers I've never heard of.
And they were all sort-of-compatible to something else! Strangely enough,
they changed their choice of cloned machine every model and they weren't
particularly good at it, either. :-)
Have fun!
Alexios
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