Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

[hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins)]

In article <HAB5yoCn8cR$EwM7@dmc12.demon.co.uk>,
Richard Kilpatrick  <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In message <bi2r5e$1dpk$6@f04n12.cac.psu.edu>, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins 
><hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> writes
>>Err, not quite.

>>IBM *designed* the Power architeture, and it was already in production.
>>IBM, Apple, and Motorola got together to implement it as PowerPC

>Well, I phrased it badly, but that's essentially what I meant. Doh!

:)

>>Fear of litigation.  They were afraid that the Workman's Comp carriers
>>would sue them for all the injuries from lifting the machine two inches
>>off the desk to drop it and reseat the chips every week :)

>They could have bought the MacAlly 'dropper', a bent bit of cast iron 
>with a lever that you merely pushed to lift and drop your Apple ///.

Was that really built?  It would make sense . . .

>I once had to move 5 of the buggers in my car. The tail was dragging...

Ouch.  From the days of armor plating to block RF interference . . .

Ever take apart an Atari 800 (and I presume, 400?).  It was designed to
use a 50 pin bus (of a pre-existing type, already in use).  The whole
board, including the bus edge connector, ended up encased in a metal pot
when the new FCC regs game out, and it ended up with that idiotic serial
connection to its disks.

o.b. dragging tails of cars:

After my father in law died, we rented a 6x12 trailer to haul some of
the stuff back from San Diego area to Las Vegas.  My poor crown victoria
ended up with it's nose higher and higher in the air, while I had that
sensation of not packing things right--you know, the feeling that you're
missing just the right way to turn things to fit to get a lot more in.

It finally dawned on me:  we were carrying everything past his one tone
pickup, rigged for a fifth wheel . . . we ened up using railroad ties
and a jack, alternating from pile of ties to pile, to get the trailer
off the car . . .

hawk
-- 
Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics    /"\   ASCII ribbon campaign
dochawk@psu.edu  Smeal 178  (814) 375-4700      \ /   against HTML mail
These opinions will not be those of              X    and postings. 
Penn State until it pays my retainer.           / \