6 Aug
2008
6 Aug
'08
2:27 p.m.
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 schwepes at moog.netaxs.com wrote:
News is what gets people to read, listen or watch.
Obviously,
these college kids got someone to do same. Creating a simplified
machine that can sell for the cost of a calculator would be
useful. Consider the recent third world computer.
It would, indeed. Care to place bets on whether any of that will happen?
Then, to make the issue less acedemic, they would have
to create
a method of using this machine to talk with mahines using more
modern protocols.
This would have application in many parts of the world.
College kids also have the time, the focus and the resources to design
such things.
this is how they prove themselves worthy to be hired when they get
out.
And as such an academic and demonstration exercise, there is no need to
be concerned with "prior art", including Jeri's C64.
No need to be concerned with IP issues, manufacturing, and marketing
realities.
Their choice of project is based on their personal interests, not on what
would be a more useful/practical product.
And, it is still being miscategorized as significant news.