rarest computers. was: RE: Xerox Alto Restoration + Emulation

Jules Richardson julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Aug 3 14:48:35 CDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 14:31, Rick Bensene wrote:

> I worked at Tek during the days of ECS (Engineering Computing Systems).
> There were a lot of VERY talented people there.

Thanks for that history Rick - nice to hear from someone who worked
there.

> The XD88's were really powerful machines, designed chiefly for
> electrical and mechanical CAD design.

I'm not sure what mine was used for - but yep, it's a really slick
machine and feels very fast to use. 

cheers,

Jules




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