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Ask HN: What is the weirdest Hardware you have used as a workstation

• Spooky23 5y ago
  An awful SCO Unix server that was pressed into service as a workstation to maintain a contract on life support.
• AnimalMuppet 5y ago
  There was a development machine for an embedded system that had dual 8085 (!) processors. With those processors, you'd guess that it didn't do a GUI, and you'd be right. It didn't even multitask between processors in the conventional sense. But there was a key that would toggle which was the active processor, and it would take over the display and IO.
  • arthem 5y ago
    Interesting! Anywhere that I could get some more information on that?
    • AnimalMuppet 5y ago
      Not through me, sorry. This was about 1986, and it was an old system then. I don't remember the brand, still less the model name.