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  1. Re:Hey! Don't worry! by PedanticSpellingTrol · · Score: 2, Funny · on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Launch

    if your computer is only 10x as fast as a PS/2, I doubt you'll be able to run it anyway.

  2. Wait a minute by ImaLamer · · Score: 1 · on Build Your Own Blade Server

    I've been told by a reputable source that RCA was able to fully duplicate the System 360 System/360, mainframe working just a month behind IBM's own schedule by using IBM's published tech reports.

    Sony tried to copy the IBM PS/2 using the same principles it just took them 14 years.

    Heck of an improvement though...

  3. Re:Go get your own major corporation by igny · · Score: 1 · on IBM Adding Almost 19,000 Jobs
    It took half a century to get them here, embracing open source, contributing to the community, beating up SCO after it pushed us down in the school yard...

    It took more than a century. And yes, they have been contributing to the world community.

  4. Re:Stealing the Mona Lisa... by fruey · · Score: 1 · on Hackers Hall of Fame
    OK so I was wrong about the MHz, because as a matter of fact it looked a lot like this

    Now I was pretty young at the time, so I don't remember exact specs. Quoted from the web page above

    Ericsson PC : 4.77 Mhz. RAM: 128 kB., ROM: 8kB., OS: MS DOS 3.0 Hard disk: 10 Mb. Floppy disk: 5.25 inch 360 kB

    My particular version did not have a hard disk, but 10MiB sounds about right for a more expensive model that shipped with hard drive the time. The next PC we had was an Amstrad 1512 and that got retrofitted with a 30MiB hard drive.

    I said I was probably wrong about the DOS version. The clock speed was a total guess.

  5. Re:Companies change. by 10101001+10101001 · · Score: 1 · on RealNetworks Sues Microsoft Over Antitrust Issues

    Sorry, it was Compaq, not Phoenix. IBM did open up their BIOS, though. They did it so they could claim anyone who made an IBM clone had commited copyright infringement of their BIOS.

  6. Amstrad 1512 mouse by adeyadey · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Logitech Ships 500 Millionth Mouse

    Mine was the mouse that came with the Amstrad 1512 , europes first really affordable mouse orientated PC clone. Ah, running GEM off a single 360K FD (no HD).. And that nice clunky mouse cursor when you ran the QBASIC 2.0 compiler..

  7. 1978 Northstar by zero_offset · · Score: 1 · on Searching for the Oldest Running Application
    I know a guy who does his job-cost estimating on a 1978 Northstar, which is a Z80 machine. It's just a roughly 500-line BASIC program, so I offered to rewrite it for him free of cost to run on his 2GHz P4, but basically the machine has never given him any trouble and he's happy with it. You should see the printer, it's enormous.

    Here is a blurb on the machine: Northstar Horizon

  8. Why Not twice.. by DSL-Admin · · Score: 1 · on Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell (or not...updated)

    Now waiting for the patent holder(s) of PS/2 interface to sue Sony for the shortname of PS2. IBM can sue for the name as well, since they had a computer called PS/1 and PS/2 Everyone wants a piece of action.... geez.. Maybe the inventor of the words Play and Station should sue them both for infringement of their name.

  9. bet your ass.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Says IBM/Linux Their Biggest Threat

    ...that IBM is a threat. A company does not persist for four generations and a hundread years (1896) without doing things the right way. IBM will continue to be around long after these kiddos have crashed and burned. IBM knows how to do things and how to do them correctly.

  10. Re:Are we teaching the kids... by PSC · · Score: 1 · on Windows on an iMac (says the invoice); Red Hat's Alternative

    My daughter (10) is currently working on learning BASIC on my old PCjr
    (Emphasis mine.)

    Does Dijkstra know about this? :-)

    (Sorry, couldn't resist. I started programming in BASIC, too, so his crushing statement hits me just as well...)

  11. Re:Well, it would kill Mac Hardware. by Refrag · · Score: 2 · on Cringely: OS X on Intel

    This page indicates that IBM's first all-in-one personal computer was released in late February of 1984 -- the first Macintosh, an all-in-one personal computer, was released in January of the same year. A year earlier Apple had released its first all-in-one personal computer, the Lisa.