This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Hi Dale. There was a great cartoon in the window of a store in Seattel, "Night of the Living Latte'". It showed several wide eyed people holding Latte's and walking around like zombies. Have you heard if ESCOM has contacted any certified developers? I haven't received any information from them…
Were is the closed developers section? Harry M. p.s. growing Habenaro peppers this year!
#account dropped
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AC News ESCOM Wins- 4Now
Message #195320
OK Amigados doesn't do virtual memory and eat up your hard disk:) Harry
Know where I can read the 100 page objection filed by IBM or what pantents were licensed. OS/2 2.1 and warp sure look a lot like AMIGADOS. Harry Manolopoulos
Gee, I wonder what the custom chips' names will be? How do yo translate: Chip of many but not enough colors Chip of four old voices etc, etc 🙂 Harry M.
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Quad-speed EIDE drives
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What do you think of the 4x Plextor SCSI with the 1 meg cache? Harry Manolopoulos
There was a really funny opinion in the Minneapolis Star Tribune this sunday projecting how the O.J trial would continue into 2044. Grand children of the jurors wer sequestered, the first child of two jurors that got married was named Ojito, etc. Prehaps something like that for the last "lampoon"…
Much of the problem in going to court is win or lose, it costs time and money. That alone can kill a company even if it wins. Harry M. Hi Ben:) \exit
Gotcha Jim D! -Harry M-
Open Letter to CEI
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It seems to mee that Commodore stayed with slower (25mhz) system components to keep the cost down. When you talk of CD-ROM drives, hard drives, etc., I would like to see high-end components. Harry M.
#Blitter and the Floppy
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Changing trackdisk would also free up the blitter for other (graphics) operations. Harry M.
I'm actually more concerned about the future of the OS than the hardware per se. I like Amigados and do use OS/2 2.1 and am getting warp etc. Amigdos stayed much ahead of other PC operating systems (the lead stayed longer than the hardware lead) until very recently. I would…
Some things are still better done with a crayon than a computer. When we recently moved to a new office building, I was told to lose my 3' x 4' whiteboard. Despite all of the graphics packages and shrink wrap project managers we own, I still find my whiteboard faster,…
The ground rumbles and quakes, a large cracking noise is heard, the earthe becomes icy cold for a brief instant, and it starts snowing in the Bahamas. We finnally know what has happened to the Amiga and hell has frozen over. Harry M.
Motorola's Mac Clones
Message #167586
And the "SoundBlaster" style microphone:) HarryM
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Commodore Name
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+-*/ and K 9 places. (Basic calculator) Harry M
I used to have a TI SR-52 but it got stolen. Was the scientific calculator light blue with medium blue buttons? Harry
I bought a Minuteman 3 for 50 cents at a garage sale. I thought it would go well with my A1000 and A3000. Funny thing is that the N type batteries cost $7.00! Harry
I think it was one of the manifestations of 1.4 or 2.0, 2.1 and on was OK. HarryM.
Except the one where DIR didn't work . HarryM. Hi Scott!
Hey, if it really is worthless, I want to buy a certificate from you to frame and hang in my office. Course I wouldn't give you what you paid for it . HArryM
OS 3.1 Available!
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After several "beta's" 1.x->3.1, I can say the same for my 3000. Now, if i can only get an AGA upgrade 🙂 ?harry M
Look, his hands are shaking! HarryM
No, I meant how much, I know why:) Thanks.
What kind of cash deposit? Harry Manolopoulos
Yeah, but what if he gets to build what he really would like to! Congrats Dave – Harry M –
Let me know when you do , I want one too. HarryM
Does this mean the Compression and de-compression software calls have also been removed from MS-DOS, or just the use of them for disk compression? HarryM
Alpha Micro puts SSD's (Software Security Devices) on each CPU. The PC equivalent would be a serialized chip on each motherboard or an internal dongle. An installation program patches the program code to key it to the device. Install the software on a different PC and it won't work. The…
Sound very silly BaBaloui HarryM
How many apples were "sold" to schools? HarryM
Yes, connectors are specified in the SCSI standard. Since the SCSI bus is a terminated bus, it is sensitive to caable length, improper termination, and number of connectors. Before SCSI was SASI, and there are some SASI implementations still kicking around. As far as odd connectors go, for SCSI-1 on…
Gee, 4096 colors and 4 8-bit voices for my microwave oven. HArryM
That depends on their investment. I develop software and hardware and so have a large investment in PC and Amiga. Instead of buying a new PC every two years, I re-build / upgrade my own. I also try to buy SCSI and now IDE disk / tape / CD-ROM so…
Interesting that Word Perfect is the only package you didn't corrupt the name of . It is handy to have OS/2 pre-loaded on the IBM's we get. It takes forever to load it compared to about 5 minutes to install amigados. HARRYM
The term "Rice Rocket" was sorta affectionately or not applied to Mazda RX7's. Maybe that term will apply to the AMIGA soon. …Looking for the elusive 4000T HarryM…
So I have to ask how easily a company could build an AMIGA support staff. I develop internal systems for the company I work for and will not do Windows based systems due to the high support cost both from the standpoint of new user's learning curve and reliability. The…
I believe that an Amiga was connected to an IBM mainframe running REXX and this kinda stuff was done. HarryM
Make Nostalgic Techno Jewelery out of it 🙂 HarryM
HARRY, a chip named after me? Must be the one that automatically displays sarcastic messages when a user is doing something stupid. "Are you really really really sure you want to put System_2.x in the trashcan?" HarryM
Gee, nobody mentioned having to have SUPPORT personel for a new platform. That incurs an ongoing cost that is not necessarly fixed. HarryM
Well I do have a copy of REXX for DOS 🙂 HarryM
"Gee sirs, what compiler did you use? A Microsoft product you say. Well then, it couldn't possibly be a compiler error. HarryM
Wait a minute, unless I read the Zorro III specs wrong, I thought a Zorro III cycle could be as fast as two cards could communicate. I don't know the clock limit due to physical factors but 50+ mhz wouldn't suprise me. HarryM
IBM OS/2 isn't that far from it, but it is larger. I used to work with Alpha Micro computers, were a 68000 on an S-100 bus, now VME with multiprocessors. Their goal was an OS that would fit in 64K. It is a mu multitasking OS. @ 8MHZ clock speed…
A GUI that worked, and real multasking in 1985 for < $2000. I was looking at that time at PC and Mac for a graphics project. EGA was relatively new and expensive. Mac lacked the resolution. Then a friend asked that fabled question "Have you seen an Amiga?". Once I…
You have my support too (another amiga developer)
The Amiga will survive for years to come in my basement thank you:) HarryM
Just installed mine yesterday Dale:) HarryM
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