14 Apr
1998
14 Apr
'98
9:08 p.m.
[SNIP]
shortwave radio.
Speaking of shortwave, imagine
if the FCC authorize commerce on
ham radio! Ugh...
I am completely unfamiliar with S-100 systems, so could you please
explain... were S-100 technologically superior to PCs (i.e. IBM
PC 5150), or just aesthetically? As far as I know, they used an
older processor...
Was it just an issue of being used to them?
As for laissez-faire, I never have believed in it. It makes society
too concerned about money. This is proven when complete crap hardware
is released now, and people don't care because it's good _financially_
And just to bring it back on topic...when consumer PCs
came out (IBM,
PET, Atari, Apple, etc.) those of us who built and used "real" micros
(S-100s of course) lamented that fact that the microcomputer market was
being overrun by large corporations bent on destroying the
laissez-faire
market of the mid 70s. Sound familiar?
Jack "I use an IMSAI, not those toy computers" Peacock
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