| Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:13:01 +0100
| From: Paul O'Malley <ompaul at eircom.net>
|[ ... ]
| One of the first commerical workstations I sat down at [ ... ]
| was a cremencio [ ... ]. That was at the start of the 80's.
do you cromemco?
doesn't really matter, except cromemco brings back
terrible memories ... that was easily the worst piece
of kit I've ever had to use. the only(?) example I
can cite without exploding in rage at cromemshite's
stupidity, bad design, and cheapness is this: that
joke for a machine is still, today, decades later,
the only pile of horse---, er, sorry, “computer”,
I've ever been able to plug a 25-pin RS-232 cable
to _upside_down_.
bah! fsckwits.
cheers!?
-blf-
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