OT, but info needed: RAM uprade - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Dec 1998

On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
...
  > >Give an engineer a copy of the PC techrefs
and count how many times he 
 > >says 'They did WHAT???' as he reads the schematics :-). It appears that

 > >if there are 2 ways to do something, the PC always made the worst 
 > >choice... 
But then, how many PCs are there of which this can be said? I can think
of:

*IBM PC - tony said it, not I
*Altair - I think the general consenus is that it was a cheap design
*IMSAI - The PSU and cooling design
*Apple /// - I guess the main problem w/these was the high-density board
*Mac Plus - The PSU and probably other stuff too
*VICs and C-* - I've heard almost everything about these

Of course, I would have included many modern computers, but one can hardly
give someone the techrefs for those :)

...
  There's a difference between a cheap (either to
design or to manufacture) 
 design and a crazy design :-) 
Any dangerous parts, like in the Mac Plus?

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