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The real question is how RM elbowed their way into the UK education market, displacing Acorn, with their shonky Nimbus machine. To this day I believe it must ha
by goatinaboat 6y ago
The real question is how RM elbowed their way into the UK education market, displacing Acorn, with their shonky Nimbus machine. To this day I believe it must have been backhanders.
- rjsw 6y agoRM was the main education supplier before Acorn had any products at all. Schools could get 380Z [1] machines at reduced cost and some were given away in a competition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Machines_380Z https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Machines_380Z
- logifail 6y ago> shonky Nimbus machine Ah, Nimbus. In my teens I was briefly root on our school's Nimbus network after tampering with a boot floppy on a server that wasn't physically secured... Was a great feeling for a few hours ... then I felt very guilty and 'fessed up to a teacher :)