thats a thought. i wonder what the best fully decked out machine would be
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From: A. P. Garcia <a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tue, Jul 8, 2014 3:15 pm
Subject: Re: best dos machine
On Jul 8, 2014 4:42 PM, "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> (IBM never called it "motherboard"
due to use of the word "mother..."
> <snip>
> Fixed drive (IBM didn't called it a "hard" drive)
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, A. P. Garcia wrote:
and don't forget to use our favorite
numbering system, hexidecimal,
because ibm was too prudent to call it sexadecimal...
"FIXED" disk?? "FIXED" In a veterinary context??!?
:-)
they should've just gone with 'winchester'.