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"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> writes:
> Does anyone recall these computers?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_8100

communication group greatly underpowered line of UC processors ... also
used in 37x5 boxes (science center had tried to get them to use
significantly better peachtree processor developed for series/1 in 37x5
boxes). Later, at one point Evans asks my wife to audit 8100 ... short
time later, 8100 was "decommitted".

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