At 11:53 AM 5/24/98 -0700, you wrote:
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
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Close enough. The internal story was it was a design that was used on the
deektop of an engineer whose last name began with an L. Somehow I didn't
buy it. The TRS-80 design was not very imaginative and some of the holes
showed. What was scary is if the guy that did the trs-80 design was good
he could have reduced the logic some and also incresed the speed!
Interesting. Now at least we know why the Model 1 was such a buggy
machine. It was based on a design that was thrown together from scratch
in a week!
Being the suspicious type that I am, I have to wonder if the designer
didn't "easter egg" the box somehow. After some of the dealings I've
had
with techno-shysters I sure would have.
Sam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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