On Friday 06 January 2006 06:22 pm, Glen Goodwin wrote:
It also taught me that there's almost always *some
way* to make
things work, despite the limitations of a given piece of hardware.
Many people who use Sinclairs today do things with them that the
designers themselves said was impossible without hardware
modifications -- high-res graphics and high(er) speed data transfer,
for example.
You mean there's actually something useful that can be done with one of those?
I forgot that one, when I was making my list, have one of them too,
somewhere...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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