Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?

[email@luddite.ca (Simon Williams)]

Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote:

> In article <o9ctfvc6143n8sqi01f6lpode89p5stnki@4ax.com>,
> Peter Thomas  <see-my-sig@hotmail.com> wrote:
>  
> > On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 01:01:20 -0500, Exegete
> > <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> I loved it. It was slow - compared to an IBM disk drive. From what I've
> >> seen of Commodore disk drives, well.... I never had ANY problem with
> >> mine. But all the ADAM's I've ever seen had the warning not to leave the
> >> tapes on top of a color TV, or it would be erased. Perhaps, or perhaps
> >> that was a "cover" for tapes that did go bad.
> > 
> > Leaving *any* kind of magnetic storage on top of a television is never
> > a good thing. I'm not sure why Coleco specified a colour television
> > either. All TVs, to my knowledge, play around with magnetic fields,
> > and can damage magnetic media.
>  
> Which is why you should never get some models of the Apple Macintosh:
> a CRT display as well as a floppy and a harddisk inside the same
> cover..... *shudder*.....
> 

Never thought of that... is it an actual issue, or just a percieved one?
I can't see it being that much different than say a DuoDisk with a
monitor stacked on top... 


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