Thank you. Then there was that shark, Jack somebody or other from Atari that ruined the C-64. I played bridge while doing some laundry the other day on the C-64. Still have a ton of software and games and the grandchildren like it but it is s...l...o...w. We have been re- programed.
On Nov 12, 3:13�am, Gaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_mz063.htm > > The story begins unambiguously. A group of IBMers, working on a secret > project to build a personal computer, flew to Seattle in August, 1980, > to see if Gates could supply them with an operating system. He > couldn't -- and referred them to Kildall. When they showed up at DRI's > offices the next day, Kildall's then-wife, Dorothy McEwen, the > company's business manager, refused to sign their nondisclosure > agreement. She is now ill with brain cancer and can't remember the > events, according to daughter Kristin Kildall. But Rolander, who flew > with Kildall on a business trip that morning, tells BusinessWeek they > returned in the afternoon and Kildall did meet with IBM. > > If Kildall struck a handshake deal that day, it didn't stick. Sams > says he did get together with Kildall in Pacific Grove a short time > later, but they couldn't reach an agreement. At around the same time, > he saw Gates again. He and Gates both knew of the operating system > Paterson had built at Seattle Computer Co. As Sams recounts, "Gates > said: 'Do you want to get [QDOS], or do you want me to?' I said: 'By > all means, you get it."' Gates bought Paterson's program, called QDOS, > for $50,000, renamed it DOS, improved it, and licensed it to IBM for a > low per-copy royalty fee. > > On Nov 12, 12:29�am, rigsy03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > There was a film on PBS several years ago that traced the history of > > Gates- the title may have been "Revenge of the Nerds" or "Geeks"- I > > forget. It covered the C64,IBM and Xerox plus others and how Gates > > wound up with the operating system for the pc. It was a combination of > > tactics and timing that was superior to Texas Instruments and some > > other early computers that failed in the market. In the meantime, the > > consumer was enchanted and began the heroic quest through electronic > > gadgets- casting models aside as soon as they felt dated/defeated. > > Each update was a magical charm.//The innards are toxic and "60 > > Minutes" had a recent expose on the e-trash of southern China that > > looks like a circle of Dante's "Hell". > > > On Nov 11, 9:33 pm, Doc Holliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Are you saying that intellectuals have no better crystal balls than us > > > folks? Or maybe there is a power greater than themselves that change > > > the course of their expectations. Intellectuals ain't the only > > > powerful lobby in town, there are such things as greed and power > > > mongers to contend with and or which intellectual holds the fleece? > > > Which intellectual side of the street you come from might have a > > > bearing who's ineffectual and who ain't. Sitting around knowing stuff > > > doesn't make you genius or even smart; it's the application of > > > knowledge that's the proof in the pudding. Do you think that Bill > > > Gates would have made it where he has if the powers that be didn't > > > want him to be and or maybe Bill Gates was CHOSEN to carry out orders. > > > Whose idea was it to build PC products the way they are; really? > > > Remember Virginia..............................and the eye in the > > > sky.....................What's a few billion to give away when you > > > have many more billions and any and all at your disposal? Is money the > > > highest order and or commodity when you're at the top? > > > > Peace, > > > Doc > > > > On Nov 11, 5:20 pm, Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: Travis > > > > Subject: "Intellectuals" > > > > > Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, > > > > > *"Intellectuals" > > > > *Thomas Sowell > > > > Tuesday, November 11, 2008 > > > > > Among the many wonders to be expected from an Obama administration, if > > > > Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times is to be believed, is ending > > > > "the > > > > anti-intellectualis m that has long been a strain in American life." > > > > > He cited Adlai Stevenson, the suave and debonair governor of Illinois, > > > > who > > > > twice ran for president against Eisenhower in the 1950s, as an example > > > > of an > > > > intellectual in politics. > > > > > Intellectuals, according to Mr. Kristof, are people who are "interested > > > > in > > > > ideas and comfortable with complexity," people who "read the classics." > > > > > It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry. > > > > > Adlai Stevenson was certainly regarded as an intellectual by > > > > intellectuals > > > > in the 1950s. But, half a century later, facts paint a very different > > > > picture. > > > > > Historian Michael Beschloss, among others, has noted that Stevenson > > > > "could > > > > go quite happily for months or years without picking up a book." But > > > > Stevenson had the airs of an intellectual -- the form, rather than the > > > > substance. > > > > > What is more telling, form was enough to impress the intellectuals, not > > > > only > > > > then but even now, years after the facts have been revealed, though > > > > apparently not to Mr. Kristof. > > > > > That is one of many reasons why intellectuals are not taken as > > > > seriously by > > > > others as they take themselves. > > > > > As for reading the classics, President Harry Truman, whom no one > > > > thought of > > > > as an intellectual, was a voracious reader of heavyweight stuff like > > > > Thucydides and read Cicero in the original Latin. When Chief Justice > > > > Carl > > > > Vinson quoted in Latin, Truman was able to correct him. > > > > > Yet intellectuals tended to think of the unpretentious and plain-spoken > > > > Truman as little more than a country bumpkin. > > > > > Similarly, no one ever thought of President Calvin Coolidge as an > > > > intellectual. Yet Coolidge also read the classics in the White House. He > > > > read both Latin and Greek, and read Dante in the original Italian, > > > > since he > > > > spoke several languages. It was said that the taciturn Coolidge could be > > > > silent in five different languages. > > > > > The intellectual levels of politicians are just one of the many things > > > > that > > > > intellectuals have grossly misjudged for years on end. > > > > > During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America > > > > condemned our > > > > economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a > > > > model-- all this at a time when literally millions of people were > > > > starving > > > > to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of > > > > the > > > > richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food. > > > > > New York Times Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize > > > > for > > > > telling the intelligentsia what they wanted to hear-- that claims of > > > > starvation in the Ukraine were false. > > > > > After British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge reported from the Ukraine > > > > on the > > > > massive deaths from starvation there, he was ostracized after returning > > > > to > > > > England and unable to find a job. > > > > > More than half a century later, when the archives of the Soviet Union > > > > were > > > > finally opened up under Mikhail Gorbachev, it turned out that about six > > > > million people had died in that famine-- about the same number as the > > > > people > > > > killed in Hitler's Holocaust. > > > > > In the 1930s, it was the intellectuals who pooh-poohed the dangers from > > > > the > > > > rise of Hitler and urged Western disarmament. > > > > > It would be no feat to fill a big book with all the things on which > > > > intellectuals were grossly mistaken, just in the 20th century-- far > > > > more so > > > > than ordinary people. > > > > > History fully vindicates the late William F. 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