The name PC jr made you think it was a cheaper version of the IBM PC. It was built for a completely different purpose, and a different architecture. People saw it as a crippled PC, instead of a home computer better than most.
Mars doesn't have 2 week long nights without an atmosphere. The Mars rovers get a nice helping of solar power each 24 hr period. If there is a software glitch, you can just fix it the next day. That doesn't work on the Moon.
And most of the problems were caused by the service that ended up not using it, the Navy. They wanted a mach 2 aircraft to carry huge missiles and still land on a carrier. The Air Force needed it to be a multi-role aircraft. The Navy dropped out, and developed the huge single purpose F-14 instead. Great plane, but only at the end of its life did they add the capability to drop a bomb. With the F-35, the services at least agree on the purpose.
Because I used a Mac at home, work allowed me to purchase Windows 286 and Word for use at work. I was probably one of the few who ever used Windows 2 for any real work.
I was talking to someone about the troubles we had developing and fielding an aircraft. He assumed I was talking about the F-35. I was telling him my tales of the F/A-18. People forget so fast that the old planes they like had similar problems. You really want a tale of waste and over-expenditure, look at the history of the F-111.
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You do realize that most European cities existed for hundreds or even thousands of years before cars were invented?
Someone else already pointed out that I really mean the start menu.
If he brings back the start button.
and they shouldn't have used a washing machine.
The plow drivers don't know how to drive in the snow, either.
Friends call me Snow Mizer...
Netscape existed before Internet Explorer.
Thanks to Larry Niven.
Will have a much easier time getting to Olso vs. Moscow.
Fast and old school
Yes. Inserted or anywhere need the drive. And you could open the drive door while the tape was moving, destroying it in the process.
The name PC jr made you think it was a cheaper version of the IBM PC. It was built for a completely different purpose, and a different architecture. People saw it as a crippled PC, instead of a home computer better than most.
The Colleco Adam? That was a design nightmare.
But if you meet A friendly horse Will you communicate by Mo-o-o-o-orse? Mo-o-o-o-orse? Mo-o-o-o-orse?
Walk this way...
And, on Mars, you would fix it the next day. On the Moon the rover would be frozen solid by then.
Mars doesn't have 2 week long nights without an atmosphere. The Mars rovers get a nice helping of solar power each 24 hr period. If there is a software glitch, you can just fix it the next day. That doesn't work on the Moon.
Another way to tell them apart: Super Hornet is much bigger.
Most of the F-111s were armed with nukes. Let's be glad they were never used. The F-111Fs bombed the hell out of Iraq in the first Gulf War.
And most of the problems were caused by the service that ended up not using it, the Navy. They wanted a mach 2 aircraft to carry huge missiles and still land on a carrier. The Air Force needed it to be a multi-role aircraft. The Navy dropped out, and developed the huge single purpose F-14 instead. Great plane, but only at the end of its life did they add the capability to drop a bomb. With the F-35, the services at least agree on the purpose.
But is still couldn't open the pod bay doors.
Because I used a Mac at home, work allowed me to purchase Windows 286 and Word for use at work. I was probably one of the few who ever used Windows 2 for any real work.
Siri came out a little too late to us in a 2001 commercial.
Still have it, should check to see if it runs.
I was talking to someone about the troubles we had developing and fielding an aircraft. He assumed I was talking about the F-35. I was telling him my tales of the F/A-18. People forget so fast that the old planes they like had similar problems. You really want a tale of waste and over-expenditure, look at the history of the F-111.