Atari Portfolio User Warning - the bugs we lived with then.

5 Apr 2005

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 >>>> "Phil&Cathy" ==
Phil&Cathy  <guerney at bigpond.com> writes:  
  Phil&Cathy> I was lucky enough today to score an as-new Atari
  Phil&Cathy> Portfolio. In the box was the following "OWNER'S MANUAL
  Phil&Cathy> ADDENDUM": (All caps as per original)

  Phil&Cathy> USER WARNING:

  Phil&Cathy> 1. DO NOT END A DOCUMENT IN THE TEXT EDITOR WITH A Space
  Phil&Cathy> FOLLOWED BY A Return.  ...

  Phil&Cathy> Imagine a product being released today with such brazen,
  Phil&Cathy> data-destroying bugs! Then, it was par for the
  Phil&Cathy> course. 

 Maybe it was for Atari, but not for real companies. 
Well, the first relase of the HP49G firmware had many more bugs -- and 
serious bugs -- than that. Not bugs that would necessarily lose data, but 
certainly bugs that caused the calculator to give totally bogus 
answers... Things like multiplying a real vector by a real matrix would 
lock the machine up (!), claiming that 1 is a prime number, and so on. 
That was in 1999 from what should have been a 'real company'.

-tony

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Atari Portfolio User Warning - the bugs we lived with then.