7 Jul
2007
7 Jul
'07
4:05 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 scheefj at netscape.net wrote:
How do you spell shill?
Lighten up on the hard sell.
All,
I cannot believe that after two weeks and about 40 messages, no one
actually responded to Theresa's actual message. Instead, from the first
"reply" you all were off arguing inane stuff like whether English
measure units are better than something else. You idiots! </flame>
If you doubt that the TRS-80 Model 1 was, as Theresa claimed in her
original message, the "first off-the-shelf home computer", then I
respectfully suggest that you READ THE BOOK!
I was going to buy a copy of that book to add to the circulation
collection. Your flame resulted in deleting it from the acquisition list.
We were there.
The responses were NOT about "English measure units". They were extensive
(and sometimes silly) disagreements about how "first",
"Off-the-shelf",
and "home computer" were defined. It takes some very creative definitions
to be able to assign that honor to TRS80.
Theresa's definitions were barely defensible!
Some of us, (Allison, etc.) were responsible for major design decisions.
Some of us remember more detail than was found by the authors of
"interview" books. Such as the time when RS said that they would be
marketing an S100 adapter. Or the bad connections with the serial board.
Or the multiple iterations of patches on top of kludges trying to get the
CPU to E.I. cabling to work reliably. Or (mostly Coco) when RS declared
that because "RS232" stood for "Radio Shack 232", that it was thus
open to
changes at the whim of RS.
Some of us are tired of "history" with a "light style" (no technical
details and/or no attempt to proof technical aspects)
Some of us are tired of undefined and ill-defined disputable "firsts".
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com