2 Mar
2010
2 Mar
'10
7:37 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
umm Everybody has the 16KB expansion pack.
Used as a door stop here still counts as valid use!
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Al Hartman wrote:
Oh, I don;'t maind. I am used to being a 'nobody'...
C'mon guys... Nobody with a Model I and E/I
with disk drives left it
stock without a doubler of some kind...
not stock, but the add-ons were mutually incompatible.
Sorry, but I must take issue with being a "Nobody". "EVERYBODY had . . . " was a common
refrain. But, it usually only
referred to a limited local subset of the community.
Community subsets were extremely common, and many/most microcomputer users
were only in touch with others with the same basic configuration they had.
But, since EVERYBODY did that, NOBODY acknowledged the existence of OTHER
user community subsets.
"EVERYBODY has after-market mods."
OK, i do, on many of my machines, but not all...
"EVERYBODY buys the machine fully expanded -
it's cheaper that way."
No way!
"EVERYBODY buys the machine bare and expands
it - it's cheaper that way."
Yes, but not because it's cheaper, but becasue I cna get exactly the
stuff I want...
"EVERYBODY uses the RS monitor on their
Model 1."
I do. But I als use the M1 montiro as a composite monitor
(beleive-it-or-not it could manage MDA scan rates...) I have the European
model, of course, with an isolating transformer whcih means it doens't
need 5V fro mthe video source.
"EVERYBODY has a clock calendar card.
(5150)"
Plety of my 5150s and 5160s don't...
"EVERYBODY has a SCSI card."
Hmmm....
"EVERYBODY uses ANSI.SYS."
No I don't..
"EVERYBODY has a SCSI card."
Haven't we just had that one
"EVERYBODY buys generic XT
motherboards"
As you well know, I insisted on IBM motherboards becuase I have the
scheamtics for them...
"EVERYBODY buys their generic XT
motherboards bare and populates them"
Only if I can get them truely bare and get to solder in every last IC and
resistor...
"EVERYBODY uses a V20 for DOUBLE the
speed."
I don't think I own a V20...
"EVERYBODY runs their AT with a faster
crystal. (Until IBM altered the
boot code)"
Mine is the faser IBM one...
"EVERYBODY has 640K on their
motherboard."
Not in the AT (it maxes out tat 512K). Of course I hacked the 5160 (and
5155) boards to take 640K.
"EVERYBODY uses JFORMAT."
Never heard of it...
"EVERYBODY converts their Gavilan to
DS."
Not a machine I've come across in the flesh...
"EVERYBODY has voice output."
Oh yes, _I_ can speak. I am not sauying anything about my machines...
"EVERYBODY has added a control key."
Not on my ASR33...
"EVERYBODY has replaced their model 1s with
model 3s."
"EVERYBODY has model 4s, instead of model 3s."
"EVERYBODY who does graphics uses a Mac."
PERQ, PDP11, HP9000...
"EVERYBODY who uses VisiCalc uses an Apple
][."
Nope, I run it on an HP75C (seriously)
"EVERYBODY has a ZIF socket for their
joysticks (Apple ][)"
Alas not.
"EVERYBODY has joysticks, instead of game
paddles."
Does a bitstick count?
"EVERYBODY has a Z80 card."
In what machine? (I suspect you're thinking of the Apple ][, but it was
also a problem on S100 machines (some CP/M software neeeded a Z80 and
wouldn't run on an 8080 or 8085 CPU), and of course there were CP/M
processor add-ons for many other machines)
"EVERYBODY uses parallel printers, not
serial."
Is that Centronics parallel or GPIB parallel? :-)
"EVERYBODY uses 1200 baud."
Yes., And plenty of other baud rates from 45.45 upwards...
"EVERYBODY rolls their own BIOS"
Err, yes...
"NOBODY uses assembly language any more, nor
ever will again" - Clancy&
Harvey
. . .
Last time I wrte assembly language was, oh, a couple of days ago...
Which of those were true for YOUR circle of friends?
Which other ones did I leave off?
"Everybody usese ASCII"
"Everybody has aVAX"
"Everybopdy has a PC"
"Everybody has a Pentium"
"Everybody runs Windows"
"Everybody has a graphical display"
"Everybody has a scanner"
"Everybody has a digital camera"
"Everybody has a USB port"
"Nobody does component-level repair"
[The last (n-3) of those are false for me, of course...] -tony