Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

Now, wait a minute ... I think somebody's got this backward ... There were lots of computers that had, literally, a toy at their heart. Somebody pointed out, however, that the SONY PS2 had been modified to run LINUX. I doubt, somehow, that it is in any sense a "low-powered" computer even though its host PS2 is certainly a toy. The confusion may arise from the fact the vendors of those early "computer toys" such as the ones I pointed out originally were not sure whether they wanted to play in the computer market or in the toy market. They'd put out what was, to some people, a gaming console, and to others, the start of a computer system. Then they waited to see what sold enough to warrant the next step. In some cases the sales were enough to warrant another step in each direction. I don't know where that would ultimately lead, but there's evidence of this in the range of devices sold for some of the Commodores. It's not likely that either the term TOY or the term COMPUTER should be viewed as a pejorative. It all depended on what you wanted at the time. There's ample proof about that a toy could become a computer, and not just an underpowered one, and there's ample evidence that a computer can become a toy. Just look around you. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 3:30 PM Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format) http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu Bramah -----------------