14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
9:54 a.m.
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:40:29 -0600
From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
Subject: Re: SWTPC craze
In article <45F76433.87F015DD at cs.ubc.ca>,
Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> writes:
<snip>
...
> I know you're interested in anything terminal,
Richard, but I have to say
>from a strictly functional perspective you're not missing anything.
Yeah, I know, but people are clearly not bidding on
this for the
functionality. Its the brand.
This can be a double eded sword. For instance, my
Beehive terminal is
branded Cromemco and that's the *only* thing that kept it out of the
hands of the scrappers. Cromemco is a brand near and dear to people's
memories and Beehive is a "WTF is that?" brand (or worse, "what a
POS!" brand) to most people.
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Good tip; I'm busy printing Cromemco stickers to put on my Falcos...
;-)
mike