10 Dec
1998
10 Dec
'98
8:09 a.m.
One might ask two questions:
What was the largest techincal challange in bringing your device to
market?
What was the largest non-technical challange in bringing you device to
market?
George
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George L. Rachor george(a)racsys.rt.rain.com
Beaverton, Oregon http://racsys.rt.rain.com
KD7DCX
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Uncle Roger once
stated:
I have a chance to speak with the designers of some of the machines in my
collection. But other than the basic "when was it intro'd, what are the
specs, what did it cost" stuff, what should I ask? What sorts of stories,
info, etc. should I be trying to preserve?
Why did you use <insert CPU> instead of <insert other popular CPU at the
time>? How long did it take to design? What was the indended market? What
was the actual market? Stuff like that.
-spc (Wants to know why IBM forgot pull up resistors on the IRQ
controller ... )