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Re:1950s Sci-Fi Style Computers, Powered by a Z80, Built in ... by guenthert on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @10:30AM (#40285939)
No, not high end by any means, but when running some basic business software (think rudimentary CRM, inventory management and spread sheets), quite possibly written in BASIC, chances are the floppy disks, daisy wheel printer and (few) attached 9600bps terminals would be the bottleneck.

Those things didn't compete with a Cray, they competed with a filing cabinet, desk top calculator and typewriter.

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