FYI, computer cock wars are off-topic too.
Thanks!
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Joe wrote:
> 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
> >
>
>
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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