That PET 4016 was a beast of a machine. Not only was it a stonking piece of kit, but you could open the case and (following factory procedures) hot-swap a few of the system critical chips thanks to redundancy engineering and some amazingly clever microcode.
Of course this was back when code was cheap and hardware was expensive, with code optimized for the rotational speed of the storage drive.
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That PET 4016 was a beast of a machine.
Not only was it a stonking piece of kit, but you could open the case and (following factory procedures) hot-swap a few of the system critical chips thanks to redundancy engineering and some amazingly clever microcode.
Of course this was back when code was cheap and hardware was expensive, with code optimized for the rotational speed of the storage drive.
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