There's a local computer/electronics store that basically resells old
unloved gear in the neighborhood called Re-PC. While the band was buying
adapters at the counter, your intrepid bassist wandered off to the little
computer museum at the back in order to drool over the PDP-8 a little and
saw this odd little thing:
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The card next to it just said, where there's usually an interesting blurb:
"Xerox Sunrise (???)
19??
We used to know all about this.
Re-PC Certificate of Antiquity"
It looked like some kind of word processor with the long LCD display line,
but the micro cassette drive on the right and accompanying speaker (which
seemed a bit large just for a beeper) had me curious. There's also an
accompanying disk drive thingie so I was sure it wasn't just a word
processor. Googling tells me it ran CP/M and didn't live long as a product,
but not much else, at least at first glance.
The tag seemed to indicate that at one point there was an interesting story
associated with the machine. Anyone know anything about it or why it wasn't
made for very long?
--
Casey Ransberger
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