4 Jan
2021
4 Jan
'21
11:29 a.m.
m?n 2021-01-04 klockan 16:38 +0100 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
The Sinclair QL was arguably the first affordable mass-market 68K
box,
and it used the somewhat crippled 68008 and 8-bit RAM to keep costs
down.
The veird machine is the Luxor ABC 1600 computer.
It was a test from them together with a consulting firm to design and
sell a UNIX based system (an version of Sys III if i'm not wrong) using
an MC 68008 but with a A4 portrait monitor.
The weird thing: why did they try to use a crippled processor (but
it gave them cheaper peripherals)
but a fairly expensive graphical subsystem with monitor....
Have and Have nots...
See http://www.datormuseum.se/computers/luxor/abc1600
and yes it is Mattis Lind together with his father Rune who run this
little museum.