Re: Web.it

From: Niklas Ramsberg (niklas.ramsberg_at_swipnet.se)
Date: 2003-12-09 08:41:31

ken ross wrote:
> i recall some of the marketing thing ~ it was designed as a set top box to
> plug into telly ,
> low powered pc with some sort of C64 emulator in it was the basic idea of it,
> the c64 emulator was just intended as some sort of games option ?,

I remember when they tried to market that thing, in 1998 I think. When I 
first heard of it, I thought "wow a new C64!", but then I saw the specs. 
It had Windows 3.1, a word processor and CCS64 (IIRC) in ROM, and it 
used a 486 processor of some kind. Not very impressive even then.

/Niklas Ramsberg
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