17 Jun
1998
17 Jun
'98
1:52 p.m.
In a message dated 98-06-17 20:42:34 EDT, you write:
<< >hey, Hey,HEY! ps2 machines were announced in 1987 so they should be
talked
about rather than destroyed. no matter what anyone
says, they were state of
the art. certainly way ahead for their time.
You MUST be kidding!
Joe >>
actually, i'm not. they WERE ahead of their time. expensive and well
designed. the first pc type machine with level sensitive interrupts. they can
be worked on and disassembled without tools, extensive grounding on the
circuits lowered emissions, real plug and play that worked, some machines had
IML partition and scsi, hi speed uarts, autoconfig, sharing IRQ's, bi-
directional lpt port, the standard keyboard and mouse we use today, so on and
so forth. i've got a model 77 with builtin scsi that i know will outlast any
other pc of its era.
david