[NTLK] OT: was C64 on app store? now Is IBM evil?

[Ed Kummel]

It's like that Kaypro 16 TransPortable that I installed a hard drive into...installed the hard drive card onto the motherboard and since there was no place to mount the hard drive, I hot-melt glued the drive right to the case! Fashioned some straps out of some cloth and glued that to the case as well, I must have gone through 6 or 7 sticks of glue getting that drive stuck to that case! It worked though..and the client was happy to have his "luggable" computer with a hard drive (it was a 32mb MFM that I converted to RLL...got him over 40MB  out of that drive!
Ed
web/gadget guru

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--- On Wed, 9/22/10, James Fraser <wheresthatistanbul-newtontalk at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: James Fraser <wheresthatistanbul-newtontalk at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [NTLK] OT: was C64 on app store? now Is IBM evil?
To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 5:11 PM

Hello,

--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Forrest <anasazi4st at me.com> wrote:

> I also have several Data General laptops (from around
> 1984)...they were truly portable (although they weighed ~35
> lbs each!), but the first ones didn't have hard drives nor
> backlit screens. 

Do you mean the DG-1?

I have to laugh when I think about what was considered a "portable" computer way back when.  If it had a handle, or could be moved in some way involving one hand, then it was a "portable computer."

The standing joke with Osborne owners is that you could always tell who owned an Osborne by the fact that one of their arms was longer than the other. :)

Of course, I have to laugh even -harder- when end users in 2010 complain bitterly about how the 1.5 pound iPad is "too heavy."  Admittedly, they're not entirely incorrect in *that* context, but somehow it always makes me want to blurt out, "You're new here, aren't you?"


Best,

James Fraser



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