6 Jul
2003
6 Jul
'03
12:11 p.m.
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Hans Pufal wrote:
It was the day they went public, he drove his brand
new ferrari into a
tree. I lived right down the road from there at the time and passed that
tree many, many times.
But you NEVER drove a Ferrari into it!
Another Eagle story is that IBM started leagal actions
to sue them for
BIOS copyright infringement. I was at Gavilan at the time and we visited
Eagle to discuss the IBM issues. As I recall it Eagle told us that IBM
had some form of binary code analyser which had shown up some relativly
isolated common code sequences. I do not recall the outcome but I think
Eagle survived after that, but not for long...
I liked the Eagle CP/M machines, but their PCs were a little
disappointing. (Nothing wrong, just not very interesting)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com