Couldn't be more OT if it tried! Re: (OT, in a way...)

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed Jun 17 21:23:22 1998

At 09:52 PM 6/17/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-06-17 20:42:34 EDT, you write:
>
><< >hey, Hey,HEY! ps2 machines were announced in 1987 so they should be
>talked
> >about rather than destroyed. no matter what anyone says, they were state of
> >the art. certainly way ahead for their time.
>
> You MUST be kidding!
>
> Joe >>
>
>actually, i'm not. they WERE ahead of their time. expensive

  Yes, I agree with that!

and well
>designed.

  Well designed for cheap manufacturing!

 the first pc type machine with level sensitive interrupts. they can
>be worked on and disassembled without tools,

  You've never taken apart a model 35 have you?

extensive grounding on the
>circuits lowered emissions, real plug and play that worked,

  It doesn't work on my 80!

some machines had
>IML partition and scsi, hi speed uarts, autoconfig, sharing IRQ's, bi-
>directional lpt port,

  Nearly all PCs have had bidirestional ports since the beginning. In fact,
the only ones that didn't have it from the beginning were IBMs. I spent two
years installing software with Lap-Link and a null MODEM (printer?) cable
and I KNOW!

 the standard keyboard and mouse we use today,

   I don't! My PC uses the standard DIN and DB-9 connectors. The biggest
reason that the PS-2 connectors are used is because of their small size and
the limited room on lap tops.

 so on and
>so forth. i've got a model 77 with builtin scsi that i know will outlast any
>other pc of its era.

   I have a model 80 with built in SCSI that won't survive the next trash
pick up! My neighbor just pitched his model 70. I didn't bother to take
it out of the trash! I have a LOT of PCs that are a lot older than any PS-2
ever made! Altair -1976, IBM 5100 - 1977, HP 9100 - 1968, lots of HP
9815s, HP 9825s and HP 85s from the '70s.

  You left out the idiotic micro-channel bus!

   Joe
>
>david
>
Received on Wed Jun 17 1998 - 21:23:22 BST