Re: Big Bang Theory - The Woz

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article <b82dnZ_JtoJg4DTRnZ2dnUVZ5rCdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
 "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> On 10/3/2010 1:57 PM, Michael Black wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, John B. Matthews wrote:
> >
> >> In article
> >> <ba5ef161-ad61-4899-848b-85d7b0eb2edd@h7g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
> >> Steven Nelson <steven-nelson@uiowa.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Oct 3, 10:10Â am, Steven Nelson <steven-nel...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
> >>>> Check out Steve Wozniak and the Apple II on Big Bang episode.
> >>>
> >>> Oops! Forgot to post the link.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/video/?pid=zfNTonqbYkQUycd0wirNYrOGq7sdbULK
> >>>
> >>
> >> Sheldon mentions the limitations of DOS 3.3 in connection with a 
> >> vintage 1977 Apple ][, but I think DOS 3.2 was extant at the time.
> >>
> > I didn't quite follow that bit either. While watching it, and I did 
> > watch the episode live but had forgotten Steve was going to be on 
> > it, it struck me that Sheldon's comment was about it being named 
> > "DOS" when everyone knows that Microsoft has the only DOS. I can't 
> > remember the wording, but the mention of the version just seemed 
> > like Sheldon's usual need to be "precise".
> 
> Sheldon said "one of my proudest possessions is a 1977 Apple II", 
> which is completely consistent with his running DOS 3.3 on it at a 
> later time.  Given his apparent age, he must have used it as a young 
> child sometime during the 1980's.

That makes sense.

[...]
> BTW, did anyone notice that when Sheldon exited the apartment to head
> down the stairs, the Apple II and monitor that he carried seemed to have
> a lot less mass than the real things?  (I suspect they were "gutted" to
> reduce their weight.)
> 
> And, of course, a real Apple owner would have carried the computer under
> one arm and the monitor by its "handle", but that can certainly be
> forgiven in this case.  ;-)

Yes, and the two items looked "glued" together. The prop manager may 
have grown up with a Commodore PET. :-)

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