23 Mar
2005
23 Mar
'05
8:32 a.m.
To borrow from a recent (and broadly offensive) film comedy:
"This article missed the point, more than Michael Bay missed the mark, when he made
Pearl Harbor. This article needs a rewrite more than Ben Affleck needs acting school, he
was terrible in that film."
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:15:28 -0500
Roger Merchberger <zmerch at 30below.com> wrote:
It did (but just barely) at the same time as the Epson
HX-20... but their
supposed facts of "but 16K didn't get you far, even in 1982..." Pffft. 16K
was a darned good start back then, and the Tandy 100 could go to 32K
without trouble; much more depending on how much you wanted to spend on 3rd
party schtuff.
They also totally ignored the Epson PX-4 and PX-8 CPM laptops, which were very interesting
and underapprecaited machines.
They did totally err on another thing - the first
"full clamshell" laptop
was the Tandy 200, which came out in '85, 4 years before the NEC UltraLite.
The comments on the UltraLite are beyond idioic. I guess the (original) external floppy
drive that I have with my Nec UltraLite qualifies neither as 'moving parts' nor a
'floppy drive'.
Finally, did any of you go to see Pearl Harbor? I've seen better film on a bathtub.
;-)
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