4 Dec
2003
4 Dec
'03
5:04 p.m.
> Parasitic Engineering and Golemics ceased to be
significant players, ...
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Those are just weird.
http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n11/30_The_first_decade_of_perso.…
"As people started adding peripherals to their Altairs, the limited
capacity of the power supply reared its ugly head. Hence, Howard Fulmer
brought out a beefy power supply to replace the original Altair unit. Ed
Roberts had been attacking the board compatible companies, calling them
parasites, so in a burst of honesty, Fulmer called his company Parasitic
Engineering."
Golemics was Lee Felsenstein's
Computer
companies hired advertising agencies, instead of hoky homemade
ads,
I do miss the ads showing computers in the middle of wilderness scenes,
sometimes accompanied by some sexy (or not) vixen in a mini-skirt and
thigh-high boots (or sometimes with nothing at all).