Re: Microsoft?

[Ben Lai <benlai@unixg.ubc.ca>]

Laer Haider wrote:

> And they <microsoft hardware products>
> are all very over priced ($75 for a MOUSE!?!).

Actually I thought the price was relatively reasonable for a piece of
"brandname" hardware, considering that Apple is selling one-button 
mouses for the same price, and Logitech's mouses are only a few
bucks cheaper.

> The Z80 card you refer to was made by the same Microsoft--I used to
> own one. 

I am pretty sure that it was called the Softcard.  Microsoft even came
out with a version for the //e - "MS Premium SoftCard //e" later on. 
They 
brought tons of magazine ads for this product back in the early 80s.
This 
card was mentioned in the PBS computer documentary, "Triumph of the
Nerds" 
on PBS, as this card played a tiny part in the birth of MS-DOS.

Later,
Ben Lai