27 Nov
2022
27 Nov
'22
2:04 a.m.
On Sat, Nov 26, 2022, at 11:18 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 10:46:33AM -0800, Seth
Morabito wrote:
It was definitely a weird beast. I'm only "fond" of it in the loosest
possible sense because I spent so much time trying to understand its internals. It was the
perfect combination of too slow, too low specs, and too expensive!
I think one of my slides will simply say "IT WAS BAD AT BEING A COMPUTER"
-Seth
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Seth Morabito
Poulsbo, WA
web(a)loomcom.com
Can anyone recall what the general mood was
regarding the 3B2 (and the 7300 and the 6300, I suppose!)
If the 7300 was the 3B1, M68K, I had one of those and a good friend also
had one. It was a huge step up from a CP/M machine which was my
previous machine. I liked it a lot.
But I wasn't at Bell Labs so perhaps this isn't the info you want. I got
the sense that the 3B2 was not very popular anywhere.