Aperiodic_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> Speaking of reference manuals, does anyone have any information / insights
> into a Visual Technologies Commuter? Manf in 1984, it uses two Intel chips
> (8086 and 8088) with a plethora of RAM chips not to mention at least four
> program subroutines. The manufacturer seems to have disowned this particular
> unit since two people in their tech department have not heard of it.
No surprise, staff turns over. Ask anybody at your local Radio Shack
about
any computer with a TRS-80 or even Tandy logo. Hell, it probably
wouldn't
require that big a sample to find two "techies" at Volkswagen who never
heard
of the Beetle, let alone the Dasher.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the
entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Received on Sun Nov 09 1997 - 01:32:20 GMT