[Coco] BIO:

John E. Malmberg wb8tyw at qsl.net
Thu Oct 16 21:32:00 EDT 2003


Bob Devries wrote:
> John E. Malmberg said:
> 
>>Age:    $2D
> 
> ROFLMAO!!!
> 
> And a prodigious list of computers, too

I forgot to list the VT180, otherwise known as a ROBIN.
It is VT100 manufactured to have a Z80 processor in it, and it will run 
CP/M.

Not well known, but the original VT100 could take a card cage and hold a 
small computer inside.  IIRC: There was also a PDP-11 variant, and 
possibly a PDP-8 variant.

I can not take credit for the first to post their age in hex.  Another 
person did that on the comp.os.vms newsgroup, and also stated the first 
year that they worked in computers in hex.  It made an interesting number.

One person missed the joke entirely of course, even though the correct 
radix prefixes for the platform covered by that newsgroup was specified.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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