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DIGEX was Doug Humphrey's nickname long before he started an ISP using that name.

Doug had a KA10 in the living room of his apartment in a high rise tower in Maryland, near where I used to live.

He had to take it up the elevator in two pieces, and the elevator had a hard time aligning with the floor because of the weight, so he had to lift it up a foot to get it out the door.

The apartment didn't have the right two phase 220 volt power outlet, but it was possible for two people to simultaneously plug it into two different 110 volt outlets at opposite ends of the apartment that were on different phases to get it to work.

It didn't have any memory except for the registers, but you could load a loop of code into the registers and run it really fast (since they were mapped to low memory), to keep the apartment nice and cozy warm.

Good thing electricity was included in the rent!



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