Many interesting things learned today

From: David Wollmann <dwollmann_at_ibmhelp.com>
Date: Sun May 24 14:45:12 1998

At 11:53 AM 5/24/98 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sun, 24 May 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
>
>>[snip]
>> Close enough. The internal story was it was a design that was used on the
>> deektop of an engineer whose last name began with an L. Somehow I didn't
>> buy it. The TRS-80 design was not very imaginative and some of the holes
>> showed. What was scary is if the guy that did the trs-80 design was good
>> he could have reduced the logic some and also incresed the speed!
>
>Interesting. Now at least we know why the Model 1 was such a buggy
>machine. It was based on a design that was thrown together from scratch
>in a week!

Being the suspicious type that I am, I have to wonder if the designer
didn't "easter egg" the box somehow. After some of the dealings I've had
with techno-shysters I sure would have.

>
>Sam Alternate e-mail:
dastar_at_siconic.com
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Received on Sun May 24 1998 - 14:45:12 BST

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