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

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

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*.....
 
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