Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!cord!ihnp1!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!nick From: nick@harvard.ARPA (Nick Vasilatos) Newsgroups: net.micro.16k,net.micro Subject: Re: WCW MG-1 Personal workstation : Byte review Message-ID: <405@harvard.ARPA> Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 18:39:13 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.405 Posted: Tue Feb 26 18:39:13 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 03:21:07 EST References: <341@umd5.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.micro.16k:236 net.micro:9557 > I'm sure by now others have seen the review in the Febuary 1985 issue > of BYTE on the Whitechapel Computer Works MG-1 personal workstation. > Anyone have any more info that's didn't appear in the BYTE article, or > perhaps actually seen/used one of these? > Whitechapel Computer Works was at Comdex last November looking for distributors for the MG-1 presumably. Their system was very impressive in the flesh. Software was at that time was too fragile for customer interaction but demos were truly impressive. Nice window manager. Pixel drawing rate was high. They were using half height peripherals, there was not a whole lot of space for expansion in the box. Styling is striking (but you've already seen 4BSD), the cabinet looked great too. I would really love to lay hands on one. The two I saw in November were numbers 19 and 20 or there abouts. Could be some time before they are in real production. They said they planned to manufacture in the US eventually. They were in the process of re-implementing their main board with PALs to reduce the density (which was amazing).