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1. @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2018 18:19:46 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

   • Ed S
   @eds the Amiga 1200 and 600 also have a PCMCIA slot. I have a working Micronet LAN card & some Netgear WLAN cards are supposed to be usable
   • Ed S (eds@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2018 18:20:59 UTC Ed S

     • Andrew (bookseller era)
     • Punching back in 2018

     Maybe most interesting is Acorn's BBC Micro - it's a reasonable 8bit machine as is, but architected to act as a front-end to a bigger faster "second processor" - from Z80 to x86, and the very first ARM product.

     These days, you can plug a Raspberry Pi into the bottom of your Beeb, and it can emulate a few second processors: a 274MHz 6502, a 100MHz Z80, a 6809, an x86, an ns32k, an ARM.

     Then run GEM, or PanOS, or CP/M, and write in Pascal, Fortran, Lisp, C.

     @shoutcacophony @ajroach42

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   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 15:31:20 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     • Amiga
     • Ed S
     @eds also it seems you can easily attach a compact flash card to the !Amiga 600/1200 using a passive PCMCIA / CF adapter http://qttr.at/21fo