Re: Apple II TV Commercials?

[jawells@crl.com (Jason A. Wells)]

badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:
>>The original magazine ads for the Sinclair ZX80 (a wonderful beast with 
>>around 700 bytes - yes 0.7k - of ram) suggested that it was powerful enough 
>>to tun a nuclear power station.

>Sure the unexpanded version would be fine. I just wouldn't recommend using
>a 16k RAMpack. Meltdown due to RAMpack wobble would be bad.

The whole problem could be avoided with a simple rubber band around the 
machine...  Maybe this was the /real/ cause of the Chernobyl accident, a 
wobbly RAM pack?

--jason


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