PR1ME 750

[John Napier]

Brian Roth wrote:

>  Please no flames.... but back in my younger days when I used to
>  (hack?) the Telenet X25 PADs, it seemed like every other machine I
>  ran into was a Prime with its familiar "Primos" banner. I also had a
>  grad student that worked for me that HATED the one he used in school
>  so much that he bought it years later at the Universities surplus
>  auction, held a party and handed out sledge hammers to everyone. You
>  can guess the rest.

There was one at Harvey Mudd College -- it was hated by the programmers
there as well. If I remember correctly, it was 8086-like in that it was
a 16 bit architecture extended to address more memory, probably via
segments. I do remember that arrays were limited to 64K.

- J