On Flames and Mailing lists, and a bit about computer - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Mar 1998

 Let's all take a minute to digest a new daily affirmation/mantra:

 Vintage computers....
 Vintage computers....
 Vintage computers....
 Vintage computers....

 Vintage computer: I just became the custodian of a NorthStar Horizon
 sporting four (count 'em) massive 64KB ram boards. Giving breath to 
 those memory boards is a four port serial board, a floppy controller 
 driving a 5 1/4" full height floppy drive, and a ST-506 interface hard 
 drive controller driving a hdd which I don't as yet have identified. 
 Of course it is powered by a Z-80A workhorse. This baby also sports a 
 lovely brushed aluminum front panel and I believe is one of the later 
 production model Horizons as it has a red led on the front panel (the 
 Horizons I've seen in the old Byte Magazines from the late 1970's 
 don't have an led pictured).

 Does anybody have any details on the history of NorthStar? I would 
 appreciate any ideas on where I might reseach their history.

 Thanks-

 Marty

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Subject: Re: On Flames and Mailing lists, and a bit about computers
Author:  classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet
Date:    3/19/98 3:19 PM

 Here we go again......you'll never learn from past experience, will you?

 enrico

 Jack Peacock wrote:
...

 Enrico Tedeschi wrote:
 I feel that ANY rule in ANY organization is wrong.

In the case of mailing lists or newsgroups if messages are off   topic than
 either the senders are not answered OR the
recipients who do   not agree move
 away from that list or newsgroup. There no need to
police and   policing: they
 should be self adjusting. History has proved time
and time   again that
 centralized and fascist societies do not last long
and do come   to and end
 (often abruptedly). 
 Good heavens, another libertarian anarchist.  It's people like
 you who build computers in your garage instead of accepting that 
 only billion dollar corporations have the resources to build
 computer products.  Where would Bill Gates be today if he
 believed in ideals like that?  Why, he'd be worth billions of 
 dollars....hmm....wait a second, that didn't come out right. 
         Jack Peacock  
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