-=> MILES MAXTED wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 MM> G'morning Wayne,

 WC> While surfing the net one day I stumbled across a site selling
 WC> brand new PETs, pretty pricey though.

 WC> Don't recall how upgraded they were however much was made
 WC> about how flexible the bus was.

 MM> Ironically, the firm I worked for got this publicity photo of
 MM> their PET sitting in a Lotus Elite;  dunno about the bus but this
 MM> car topped 260kph 7 seconds after taking off....

Used to be a bit of a high performance freak myself.
Last motorcycle put out 120 H.P. at the rear wheel 
at 540 pounds dry weight!

To view a VERY interesting web site tour and a attractive 
Russian high performance case that makes me look like a 
lamer by comparison see
www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

Tour of the Chernobyl "dead zone" by the woman on the high performance
motorcycle.
The snapshots she took and posted make any news, web or book
references to that disaster pale by comparison IMO.

My first computer was what Popular Electronics called a COSMAC ELF
based on the RCA CD1802 microprocessor.

Built it from parts and the five page magazine article 
for well under 100 dollars U.S. at age 20 only to discover
RCA wanted 800 dollars for the assembler programming.

Still and all as a first digital electronics project I was impressed
it worked upon first firing it up!
Pop Tronics ran some primitive programs that ran perfectly on the system
but it essentially went nowhere for me.

Later I was astonished to learn the first Mars lander with primitive 
A.I. used the very same processor to control it's landing
sequence and operations!!!!
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