14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
3:35 p.m.
Research Machines made a whole range of PCs starting with the first Nimbus.
I have one in the collection but have had little time to look at it tbh.
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Chris Tofu
Sent: 14 February 2013 22:40
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Who were the worst of the worst?
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 1:37 PM PST Tom Gardner wrote:
Let's not be US centric - I nominate AMSTRAD for
one of the worst
designed system boxes. The cables basically blocked all airflow
resulting in all sorts of thermal problems, and the data separator,
designed by some UK consultants who knew nothing about the subject,
limit-cycled eating up all the disk drive margin.
Tom
Didn't Acorn dabble in pcs? What about Research Machines? Fairly robust,
no?