Comments on: Bailout Update

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:49:26 +0000

Actually, Kryten, the factory was just down the road from me in San Diego, and I saw a lot of prototypes that never made it out the door. Good technical people who obviously cut their teeth on test equipment.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:10:32 +0000

Using dBASE II, Wordstar, etc. on a SWTP S-100 with Wyse terminals – good system, and stable.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:46:20 +0000

They shoulda been running MP/M. With 8″ floppies and a 5 megabyte hard drive. Ran an entire accounting system off of one of those big daddies. S-100 bus and all, with 5 terminals.

As for getting their hands on the bill, wasn’t that Monica Lewinsky, and it wasn’t exactly hands? 😉

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:34:58 +0000

Hey! What’s wrong with the Kaypro? I Had one of those first portables… OK… luggables. Was better than the Osbourne! LOL Worked fine for me… in it’s day… long ago… Ahem. 😉

And who said they want anyone to get their hands on the bill anyway? 😉

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:10:22 +0000

‘made the announcement to calm the markets’ was my guess too.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:57:37 +0000

That must be the bill, because I finally got into the Financial Services site and that's the same PDF of the discussion draft as I was looking at from CNN, including the same document name "ayo08c04". They are still messing with it and made the announcement to calm the markets. That's all I can figure out.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:33:40 +0000

you got a link to that real bill? all i can find is dozens of copies of the discussion draft.