14 Jul
1998
14 Jul
'98
3:44 a.m.
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
Remmeber it was supposed to be a _home_ computer. At
the time very few
home computers came with floppy drives.
BTW, how common are PC-jr machines without floppies? Were most of them
upgraded?
Dunno, mine's got an IBM 360k drive in it. My biggest complaints about are
the 'sidecar' expansion (the second all-time-lamest computer innovation)
and the fact that all backpanel ports are.. BERG headers (the first
all-time-lamest computer innovation).
What's up with the tiny card-edge connectors inside on the motherboard?
I also noticed my keyboard (which is a joke) has an RJ-11 jack off to the
side, and that there's a 2x3 BERG header at the back labelled 'K'. Could
this be for a keyboard cable, heaven forbid?
Also, keyboard battery life is uniformly poor. It seems like I get about
20 minutes. Is this normal?
ok
r.