Tony Duell wrote:
>
> >
> > > >Everyone on this list predates the PC, except for maybe that Seagraves
> > > >punk.
> > >
> > > And Tim Hotze, Max Eskin.... anybody else?
> >
> > Don't forget me! I'm from 1982, so does that make me IBM compatible?
> > 32-bit isn't all that great, especially considering Win'95... ;-)
> >
>
> You're all making me feel old... I date from the time of the HP9100 (1967),
> so I guess I should be stack-based... Hang on... I am :-)
>
> A silly suggestion. Computer-astrology. Your way of thinking is
> determined by the computers that were in production at the time of your
> birth. No, I don't believe it either :-)
Especially as the few computers in production at the time I was born
were mostly Univac I units, there were others gearing up for production
but in mid '55, calling any other computer "in production" can be
argued. (Of course, from a modern _mass_-production point of view, it
could be argued that no computer _requiring_ individual expert
installation is a "production" computer -- in which case the TRS-80, the
Apple II and the original Pet are the first "production" computers,
although the Apple II only makes it by a nose). I am not a member of
this latter school, BTW.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Fri Jun 05 1998 - 22:39:03 BST