24 May
2001
24 May
'01
12:22 a.m.
Hi all.
Anybody ever heard about this? I found it amusing...
I was told by a longtime local DEC employee that DEC came out with the ROBIN
(VT-180) to compete with IBM PC and Apple II. He (and other DEC employees)
were told this by DEC top management:
"The system we wanna target is the Apple II and IBM is coming out with a new
computer (IBM PC) code named WORM because it will eat up the Apple. Well, we
are coming out with the computer named ROBIN (VT-180) beacause its gonna eat
the WORM that ate the Apple...IBM is a 16 bit machine with almost no
software running MSDOS, we will be running Z80 CP/M with thousands of
available programs"
Hmmm....Now I know where the name Robin came from...
Actually the WORM was supposedly the codename for the Xerox 820
CP/M box. At least that's what the Robin Owners Group and DEC told me.
BTW if anyone need this, I have the full schematics for the robin somewhere
around here...
I've got one in the garage I promised to David Betz...
If I ever get done with enough stuff to get it checked and packed...
Bill
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