CoCo Floppies: Was:These darned old computers

From: Alexander Schreiber <als_at_thangorodrim.de>
Date: Thu Aug 29 05:56:01 2002

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 06:22:47PM -0500, Doc Shipley wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > >
> > > No, that was the Commodore 64 until it proves otherwise. The CoCo2 is
> > > still up in the air, though I am leaning towards "crap" because of the
> > > limited video output capability ;)
> >
> > Presumably by this criterion the Cray is totally 'crap' because it has no
> > video output at all?
>
> No, it's crap before that, because it won't run Windows 95.

<cool knowitall dude>
And what is even worse, it doesn't run $SHOOTER_GAME_WITH_COOL_3D_GRAPHICS,
therefore it is totally useless. Aren't computers, like, made for gaming
or something?

Using computers for real computing or even - heaven forbid - to get work
done is just soooo backwards and oldfashioned and, like, soooo totally
uncool.
</cool knowitall dude>

SCNR,
    Alex.
-- 
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
 looks like work."                                      -- Thomas A. Edison
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