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

[vairxpert@hotmail.com (vairxpert)]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:31:12 +0000 (UTC), pausch@saaf.se (Paul
Schlyter) 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*.....

Have you ever owned a one piece computer system?  Those systems were
designed to work that way so there is no reason people shouldn't have
bought one.  Just about every high end serious business computer was
all one piece with either 5�" or 8" floppy drives back in the early
80's.  The floppy drives on my TRS-80 Model III still work fine till
this day and have never had a problem with losing data.  My guess is
the Apple systems had a shielded drive tower just as my Model III
does.

Toss a disc or cassette right over any monitor (where there is no
shielding) and there's going to be problems, especially at start up
when the degausing coil is activated for a few seconds.

George