[Simh] Rainbow100

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2017-07-20 20:03, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> On Jul 20, 2017, at 1:52 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> The earliest documents I've found for the GIGI are late 1980, but most are from around mid 1981.
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>> Either way, mass storage sure is a sore point, but there were other examples of micros around that era with a built-in BASIC and no mass storage (or mass storage introduced at a later point in time), so it wasn't totally unique.
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>> I would definitely classify it as a micro either way.
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> By that definition, the PLATO Programmable Terminal, of around 1975, is a micro also.  It too has a graphics display, support for downloaded user programs (in TUTOR not BASIC), and no local storage.

I have no knowledge at all about the PLATO Programmable Terminal, but it 
certainly sounds like it might be classified as a micro.

I found the definition in Wikipedia to actually be pretty good. If you 
say that the PLATO system matches that, then I don't have a problem 
calling it a micro. But, as I said, I don't know anything about it 
myself, I can't really comment.

But see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer

	Johnny

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