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Re: Your first A2.

Subject: Re: Your first A2.
From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 17:55:41 GMT
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"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> pity they dropped it when the PC was designed.
> no backward compatability at all, not even personality :)
>
> Mark
>

Dude, the PC came out in 1981 and the Junior in 1984.  The
Junior should have been backward compatible but it had all
kinds of quirky technology which IBM thought that the Home
User would want.  However, it made the machine a big joke.
By the time you sidecarred things to death, you could have
bought one its bigger brothers for less.

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Just hacking away...

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