How many computers? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Jul 1998

On Jul 14, 10:55, Max Eskin wrote:
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  Subject: Re: How many computers?
 A question about the Sorcerer: I heard once that it used 8-track tapes.
 Is this true, or did they mistake a cartridge for a cassette? 
No, they used "ROM Pac"s, which consist of a small circuit board with a
decoder chip and 4 x 2KB ROMs mounted inside a gutted 8-track tape
cartridge.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York