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They were amazing machines. The phone handling and multitasking was so ahead of its time! Imagine the phone rings, you answer and a notebook pops up for call notes specific to this person as determined by caller ID.

Similar story here. Just didn’t have enough knowledge to pull off the interesting hacks. I also wanted to get that modified PAL hack for graphics installed. It was talked about on Usenet.

I think about 6 months after getting the machine I ended up plowing my savings into my first 486 and I sold off the 3b1. If I had enough know how at the time, I would have kept the machine.

https://loomcom.com/3b2/emulator.html

FWIW: A 3b1 (a tiny 68010 based Unix PC) is very different than a 3b2 (custom WE32000 processor Unix box).