25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
3:56 p.m.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "straight" serial. Is that as opposed
to "gay" serial?
They are toys, since they didn't have a disk interface in them. They, in
fact, if your description is correct, needed a toy interface to talk to
another toy interface that talked to what was probably a smarter computer that
had a disk interface in it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith(a)amdocs.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:42 AM
Subject: RE: "Toy" computers (was Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers)
No ... but if the interface hardware is in a separate box, then the enclosure
in which all these boxes live is the real system enclosure, isn't it.
Networks weren't that common on microcomputers in 1980.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com]
Hey! I did say the mass storage interface had to
be internal to the
"computer" and not necessarily the mass storage devices.
Sure, but my point was, for instance, the C64 had drives that used
what basically amounts to a straight serial (or is that parallel?)
interface, and that is in the computer. But they're "toys," right?
campus is the enclosure, while if it's a
desktop, it's pretty
Is that like "the network is the computer?" :)
Besides, though I didn't originally point
this out, some of
you guys have, as
toys, some of those very machines that you're pointing out
aren't really toys.
Are you guys trying to have it both ways?
Just because they're not toys doesn't make it impossible to play
with them like toys.
We could just define anything that's not necessary for survival
to be a toy, and be done with it. :)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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