"Chuck" question

At 11:21 PM -0700 9/29/07, Chuck Guzis wrote: I think the best explanation is that American TV is absolute rubbish. The TV writers are hacks, who only write for the clueless brain-dead masses (which sadly seems to sum up the American public). Trying to make sense of TV's portrayal of computers is a waste of time. Just look at computers in any episode of CSI. I have the misfortune of seeing most episodes of CSI, and it appears CSI:NY's set designers have decided to toss out any pretense of accuracy, and gone full on into Sci-Fi. Not knowing the show (and not caring to), my hand-wave of an explanation would be the guy had the computer around when he was a little kid and took it to college with him. He might have written software for it just for fun. This works best if he came from a background of poverty, which since Stanford is mentioned seems unlikely. BTW, in this area, I've seen a grand total of 5 TRS-80's of various vintage. Two of those the Library just received as part of the donation last week, one of those, a CoCo, might be the first that has enough pieces to actually be usable. The only system I've found less possible to get up and running in any form are Atari Computers. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |