Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Wed Apr 24 21:00:24 2002

It may be well to keep in mind that the Altair was certainly not designed to
be a computer. Only the determination of a fanatic made it into one.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Franchuk" <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)


> Jeff Hellige wrote:
>
> > Plenty of people couldn't afford what you consider a computer
> > and had their first experience with computers using what you deem as
> > 'toys'. I doubt that early user's of the Atari, Commodore, TRS-80 or
> > Sinclair machines would appreciate that label though. Nor did
> > everyone have either the ability or desire to write major portions of
> > the OS to get into the S-100 bus boxes, even if they could afford
> > them.
> Also development software was expensive too!
> A SD floppy of 85k would permit a OS like Flex or CP/M but not much
> more!
>
> --
> Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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>
>
Received on Wed Apr 24 2002 - 21:00:24 BST