10 Nov
2001
10 Nov
'01
1:36 p.m.
Pardon me from interrupting,
I just watch this mailing list, but I have noticed a definite trend.
You two hate each others guts, or at least do not respect each other
professionally in any way, shape or form. I appreciate that you contribute
to the community, and I respect both of you, but would you mind dealing with
it off list? Or at least keep the personal attacks to a minimum? I can
sort out the off topic threads ("food"), but it is much more difficult to
avoid your arguments, as they are usually in on topic threads.
Thank you for your time,
Zach
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: hard-sector 5 1/4 disk
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
Festival
My point was that Sellam wasn't old enough to
be earning his living
with the Apple ][ back in the very early '80's. I'm sure Sellam has
And this somehow supports your ignorant ranting about Apple disk drives?
played with his Apples enough to know a great
deal about them by now,
but the sorts of remarks he's made just don't line up with the
magazine articles about those very issues that were published back in
the '80's. People had problems with the Apple][ disk subsystem, but
not terrible ones. However, it's stretching things a bit to suggest
they were as dependable as the 8" units we used with CP/M boxes day in
and day out.
WHAT MAGAZINE ARTICLES???
Give me the name of the publication and the general timeframe, and I'll go
LOOK IT UP FOR YOU since you won't give me any references. Since I have a
complete collection of every Apple ][ and just about every non-Apple ][
magazine, I'm SURE I'll be able to come up with the article claiming the
Disk ][ was as unreliable as you claim it was.
My guess, though, is that this would be a wasted effort, because you
continue to talk out of your ass.
For me, a car isn't something I dream about.
I just gave my Maxima to
my son, who drives a lot more than I do, and I'm driving a Chevy
that's old but has <50K miles on it in spite of its 14 years. Of
course I only drive about 2500 miles a year since I live pretty close
to everywhere I want to go.
Good strategy! Change the subject and hope your moronic rantings will be
forgotten.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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