[rescue] CM-5

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Sep 21 18:42:28 CDT 2001


On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 06:25:06PM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> No one would buy that as a production machine. It's simply *cool*.
> They're also *ridiculously* large & heavy. The RCS is doing a gallery
> show for industrial design next month, and we can't bring our CM5
> cabinet because it won't fit through one of the doors. Not even close.

I think modern machines need more blinkylights.  The BeBox had incredibly
high blinkylight factor.  I have yet to get a "proper" PDP-11, but would
love to find a machine where it had lots of blinkenlights that I could run
on normal power, cheap enough to toy around with.... 

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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