20 Sep
1997
20 Sep
'97
5:34 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Robert Kirk Scott wrote:
at it that close yet. A little research on the
comp.sys.ibm.sys38
newsgroup revealed that the general feeling is that these computers are
not worth fooling with, as basically you get a room-sized 8088 in the
end. What say ye? Is it worth messing with in your opinion? I'd have to
find a place to set it up, and moving it would be a pain. But it would
be a stretch for me and the first opportunity for me to mess with a
mini. What's the consensus?
If everyone thought like that there would be no more System/38's in
existance. The point is not to have a room-sized 8088, but to have a
System/38, one of the most forgettable systems (it seems) in the history
of computing, so that it will be preserved.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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