13 Feb
2013
13 Feb
'13
6:54 p.m.
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 5:27 PM PST Fred Cisin wrote:
But, after giving a copy to John Dvorak, and having it
not work on his
after-market POS, I started testing on every BIOS and every FDC that I
could.
Point Of Sale like an NCR? Never mind. Do you remember what he was using?
13 Feb
13 Feb
9:03 p.m.
>But, after giving a copy to John Dvorak, and
having it not work on his
>after-market POS, I started testing on every BIOS and every FDC that I
>could.
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Chris Tofu wrote:
Point Of Sale like an NCR? Never mind. Do you remember
what he was using?
POS as in Piece Of Shit. In "Men In Black", Will Smith referred to the
company car as a POS (before he experienced the non-stock mods)
I don't remember what it was. Leading Edge? e-machine? Packard-Bell?
Some sort of freebie thrown at him by some company's marketing.
"It works on a real IBM PC" carries no weight when a reviewer's machine
is buggy.
10:27 p.m.
On 02/13/2013 09:03 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
"It works on a real IBM PC" carries no
weight when a reviewer's machine
is buggy.
Apparently, the Sanyo piece-of-something MBC-550 series machines are now
collectors' items. One of the worst PC-compatibles/non-compatibles
ever. Used a WD17xx floppy controller and ran (by CPU clock) slower
than the 5150. Has a sort of VCR-look to it. No BIOS, except for a
very simple bootloader--the BIOS had to be loaded from your boot floppy.
One wonders what possessed Sanyo to make the thing.
--Chuck
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