4 Jan
1999
4 Jan
'99
6:35 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Jason Willgruber wrote:
As Bill Gates would say, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. If
cosmic rays were to blame for the EIs suckiness then every computer back
then would have had similar problems. No, you can't blame Radio Shack's
sorry-assed engineering on cosmic rays, but nice try.
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Every 11 years the sun sends storms of cosmic rays which disrupt all sorts
of electrical devices. The last was in 1989, and they are due again in
2000. 1978 was also a year effected by mega cosmic rays and was
coincidentally the first year of Expansion Interface manufacture. Could
the rays have been the source of the EIs poor performance? I have a 1978 EI
and its never missed a beat, but I didn't own it in '78. Its all buffered,
probably against cosmic onslaughts.
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