On Friday 18 December 2009, jdow wrote:
>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.hesk...@verizon.net>
>Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 21:21
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>Now, if you want to "get me rolling" about an incompetent computer
>company just mention GRiD and their Compass not really a laptop computer.
>Even the bugs were themselves buggy. (We had to own 6 of them to keep 5
>running most of the time. The displays went out regularly. And the OS
>would lock up at peculiar times "just because it felt like it" when
>trying to talk to an HPIB device. (It had built in HPIB to talk to its
>disk drive etc.) Wikipiddle accuses it of being a laptop. All I can do
>is snicker about that assertion. Then they continue the phrase to call
>it a computer. Admittedly it was, on brief occasions, a computer. But
>it spent too much time emulating a doorstop to be worthy of its price.
>
>{^_^}
>
ROTFL, thanks Joanne.-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. -- Euripides
