22 Jun
1998
22 Jun
'98
3:01 a.m.
I remember back in '98 when Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Chris Halarewich wrote:
>
> I was looking around at http://www.patents.ibm.com
>
> I discovered that Commodore Electronics held the
> patent for the case of the TRS-80 CoCo2(3?), which makes me wonder if
> they designed the rest of the computer for Radio Shack.
>
> Any Edgeumacated guesses anyone...anyone :)
I recall that Commodore started buisness as a manufacturer of cases and
such, so this isn't too much of a surprise.
IIRC I read this in a book _The Secret Art of Computers_. I haven't
heard anything about the book in years, but I remember that it was pretty
interesting at the time (1987, 88?). My favortite part was the section
where the author examined programming in about 2 dozen languages,
from BASIC to FORTH to APL to SNOBOL .. and more.
Anyone know what happened to the book (I assume it is no longer published)
Matt
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