Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!bu-cs!bucsb.bu.edu!madd From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: IBM Flops (was: Re: Minor historical point: the origin of ms-dos) Message-ID: <720@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 20:14:42 EST Article-I.D.: bucsb.720 Posted: Wed Feb 4 20:14:42 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 10:08:04 EST References: <8520@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <1270@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1486@rayssdb.RAY.COM> <5428@amdahl.UUCP> Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost) Organization: ODO (Organization for the Disorganization of Organization) Lines: 27 Xref: watmath comp.sys.amiga:1927 comp.sys.mac:1160 comp.sys.m68k:231 comp.sys.ibm.pc:1405 In article <5428@amdahl.UUCP> muth@amdahl.UUCP (John A. Muth) writes: >In article <1486@rayssdb.RAY.COM>, rxb@rayssdb.RAY.COM (Richard A. Brooks) >writes: >> (could any- >> thing with the IBM name flop??) > >This is a joke, right? > >Things with the IBM name flop all the time. Look at the PC Portable (IBM's >answer to Compaq) or the PC Jr (who could forget that?). > >And don't forget about the 8100. NOTHING was as big a flop as their System/23. That was their original try at a PC. Used EBCDIC. BASIC was its OS and only language. Not only that, but it was the slowest basic ever (and not too close to what I would call basic anyway). Used huge, slow, noisy 8" drives, and if you didn't have the printer turned on, it wouldn't boot. Yup, I've used one. Can tell you I know why it flopped! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% - Jim Frost * The Madd Hacker - UUCP: ..!harvard!bu-cs!bucsb!madd | ARPANET: madd@bucsb.bu.edu CSNET: madd%bucsb@bu-cs | BITNET: cscc71c@bostonu -------------------------------+---+------------------------------------ "Oh beer, oh beer." -- Me | [=(BEER) <- Bud the Beer (cheers!)