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[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:58:52PM +0000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> During my "tenure" at UW, the RT course was running on 80186 systems.
> That's the Intel CPU that was used a lot for embedded apps, but
> barely, if ever, got seen on desktops.

I guess the Unisys Icons don't count. :)

> The year I graduated was the year students had the option of either:
> a) Controlling the model train, or
> b) Controlling a robot arm that would move balls around in conjunction
> with an apparatus where the balls would run around on grooves...

Yeah I did the same stuff, although we got to use an amazingly fast
486/33 with 4MB ram.  So much memory. :)

The robot arm was removed in the late 90s, not long before I graduated.

Len Sorensen
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