The New York Times: Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age

coderman coderman at protonmail.com
Fri Dec 27 10:56:56 PST 2019


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On Friday, December 27, 2019 1:22 AM, Razer <g2s at riseup.net> wrote:
...
> I stuck with that COCO3 until the early 90s. I refused to use XT 8088s
> or MS-Dos because they simply couldn't multitask. I put jNos on one,
> text-file driven tcpip with tools, for ham radio, then put a bunk IP at
> the end of the nameserver list and pointed the connection that way. It
> was a ham radio tcp/ip node list. MAYBE a few hundred kilobytes. A
> half-hour later the XT was STILL chugging it'a way through the
> nameserver list, and I pulled the plug.


should have pressed the TURBO button!  ;)


best regards,

(kudos to anyone who gets it -^ ...)


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