I was actually searching for info on Dec Vax systems, and I found this page. And indeed I found something that was compatable with the VAXstation... looked into it.. and it was the "Compatibility Guide for Rectaltronics(tm) Butt-Plug Systems"
It's pretty professional looking, I wasn't sure what analbus was at the time, and I was shocked to discover they were selling buttplugs. To prove whether it was a joke I tried to order to 1111 any street with the credit card 4444 4444 4444 4444, and at that point they freely admited it's just a joke.
Not that I would buy Stove Top products, but it seems odd that the only network who carried their corn bread comercials was BET. While corn bread is soul food... it seems to be just a popular dish all over america.
I have a hard time understanding this sexist concept my self. I own a HP PSC 950 and I find it remarkably easy for *PEOPLE* to use.
Printing is easy, as you described
It accepts memory cards and will print off a proof sheet without your PC being on. Further, you can check the little box with a #2 pencil, put it on the scanner and it will print off which pictures you want independent of the PC.
You can scan to the fax or scan to the PC just by using the buttons on the top level.
It's not that this design is all that unusual, Dell has a printer which has most of these fuctions, I believe it's the lexmark 1100 but don't quote me on that model number. It requires the PC on to peform it's fuctions, and it's onscreen twain software has pull down menus to choose whether you want to send the image to the printer, file, e-mail, or fax.
It would be really hard to improve on such printers where you can get the job done with only a few clicks on screen or buttons on the printer it self.
Hmm....I kinda thought making mixed tapes/CD's of music you had purchased WAS fair use....why pay extra for that?
Assuming we're talking about computer software, while licenses my varry but according to the SPA now known at the SIIA while licenses my vary the law is clear, one disk = one license for one machine, one backup by be used.
A *mix* tape opens up the door to piracy in this way... let's say you bought an album and only enjoy one track. Fair use would be to copy that track you like onto media with a bunch of other tracks you like. Ok, you have the songs you want, what do you car happens to the CD? You can lend it out to a friend while still having your mix tape, you could loose it, but what do you care as you still have your mix tape. Or you can sell it to a 2nd and record store and get something diffrent, but you still have your mix tape.
There are those who feel that buying music media only gives you license to play that media on one player at one time. If you had a household where both you your mates could listen on diffrent players at diffrent locations at diffrent times, but on only one purchaced copy.
Now the key diffrence between music media and computer software is the fact that computer software spells out their EULA, where they grant you specific rights to the product where tapes/CDs/vinyl don't spell this out for you. I would think that the same rule that applies to software should apply to all forms of media, after all it's software as well. But that would make too much sence.
Great multi-tasking hardware: e.g. opening four CLI windows, typing "format df0:" in each one and watching the Amiga simultaneously format the same floppy disk four times over! (Try that on a PC!)
That legacy floppydrive on the PC still buggs the living shit out of me. It's not like a PC floppy drive is any diffrent then the amiga one. I know I argued this point with amiga geeks pre 1990, and proved it many times getting rid of surplus 720k floppy drives that were worthless by this point.
It's not like your modern PC floppy drive doesn't have a disc change line that could tell your PC you inserted a damn floppy disk, but to this day when dealing with multiable floppy distros it will still ask you "please insert floppy and then press any key to continue".
Don't make me think about it... While I'm by no means a neat freak... I'm among those who actually don't pee in the shower. I've not heard a compelling enough reason to support peeing in the shower other then just being lazy. If I really need to pee that badly, i'll run the risk of getting the floor shower wet and walk to the toilet.
It's hard to tell what would have happened had C= not gone into the PC market. Atari went bust (though Atari did make one failed attempt to enter the PC clone market too)
Not as bad as Atari's attempt to enter into the VME market.
Commodore ploughed absurd sums of money into a PC division which, as you say, launched pretty laughable systems. It believed that proprietary systems such as the Amiga only had a finite lifetime after which only PC clones would be taken seriously
Which in reality, one reason to get a PC clone by the time the 386 was released was upgradability and standardization lowering production costs. Even back in 1990 you could get an AT case for about the $50 spectrium where an amiga case cost you a fair bit more. Same with the Amiga keyboard vs an AT keyboard.
I have to agree their PC clones were pretty piss poor as far as bang for the buck. I actually wanted to support Amiga at the time, I was willing to buy one of their clones, but they cost about $1000 where I got a VIP 386sx16 system for under $600... circa 1989/1990 or so.
I'd have to agree here. I can't see any companies making notable purchases of this OS
GEM os seems to have something resembling a nitch market. I would think that AmigaOS wins out over other choices because of it's very small CPU and memory requirements. As a desktop machine, I'll agree it's crowded, but as a handheld device it would hold some promise.
What ticks me off is that all these companies that buy Amiga IP simply don't have a clue what to do with it.
Something from the rumor tree... my vague memory seems to recall the fact that the amiga approach to desktop and windows was actually their IP that they fought for and won in court. I don't know if this applies to the auto hiding [file] bar, or the pull down shade windows when operating something in a diffrent graphic mode. I could be wrong, it's not like I actually *read* any of their court documents.
I would think it would be nice to have that ability with software running open GL. Near as I'm aware, the only software auto hiding [file] bar is internet exploder in full screen mode. Alas if this indeed is IP of Amiga then it will likely be lost in the paper shuffle.
Re:Remember we joked with Apple, Amiga people?
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It [apple II emulation] was real hard to use it though, especially near impossible for warez people. Needed Apple disk drive and Apple rom chips.
That's because the woz thought it was a good idea to use a tape drive controler on the floppy disk drive. Actually i'm sure circa 1970s this was a cost effective means of actually getting disc storage, so I excuse him for this faux paux. What annoyed me was the simple fact that once disc drive controlers lowered in price they never bothered to upgrade the apple II floppy drive.
As far as the apple roms go... I don't think they were popular enough to be pirated.
That the true blue amiga zelots will actually give me a copy of workbench 3.x without giving me the speach that piracy will kill any chance amiga has for a comeback?
It's a big shame. If Commodore hadn't been so PC focussed in the early 90's, they probably wouldn't have gone bust, and we might even still have the platform - in some modernised form - around today.
So PC focused? near as i'm aware they only released an xt, an AT, perhaps a 386sx or so. I still own a commodore b&w vga monitor that I bought from the only amiga shop in town. I guess I honestly don't have any details as to how much in the way of resources they put into the project. Were they like gateway and dell selling getting cheep pre-exising motherboards or did they go full swing and try to make an ibm compatable from the ground up.
I think the usual complaint I find easier to believe was marketing. Right about that time period, web-tv style devices were getting into vogue. Commodore had their CD32 system I believe it was called. Even a 68020 would make a decent internet terminal, and all the software to do it was freeware at the time. And what better way to sell your higher end machines then selling a base model game machine / internet terminal, well assuming they even thought to make one net ready.
Another drawback was the fact that microsoft gave away much in the way of development kits upon request, where commodore would charge you lots of moolah for the same damed thing. Say what you will about microsoft, but I found commodore as a company to be a bigger bastard tward those who wished to actually support the platform where microsoft seemed to actually WANT people to write for it. Commodore seemed to communicate the attitude it was a privliage to write for the Amiga.
But the primary power PC application between 1985 - 1990 was word processing. Not to dismiss the video toaster or other newtek products, nor postscript support. Mac and PC had word perfect, and they both had word. I forget what the last program I used on the amiga with my apple laserwriter, but while I could get 3rd party applications to create bitmaps to import into my word processing app on the amiga, it was a hell of alot less painful to use objects in word. Hell, most people would have prefer the lisa to get pie charts in their documents.
Modern society's obsession with disinfecting everything is weakening our immune systems.
At the same time, places like computer work stations develop a remarkable amount of organic trash and all sorts of nasty germs. While there is a problem living in a steral enviroment, there is a greater problem living in a sespool. Your workstation should be cleaned and vacumed.
Problem is, in this throw away soceity of ours, the typical business enviroment isn't hip on paying someone to clean keyboards / mice / PC cases. I clean my keyboard from time to time. that is pull all 104+ keys, and throw all the plastic in the dishwaser. This would be impractical for a business to do, far more practical to just buy another damn keyboard.
Re:Transformers and Schoolyard Trauma
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Except, one person I know who had collected a bunch of them in the 80's managed to sell his entire collection for $3500 a year or so ago.
Everyone knows that one person who collected crap and sold it for an insane price. My problem is I'm not very good at pointing out which specific crap is going to actually be worth a damn in a year or two.
Re:Transformers and Schoolyard Trauma
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They're hideous chunks of cheap-assed made-in-$INSERT_THIRD_WORLD_MANUFACTURING_HELLHOLE _DU_JOUR plastic crap that all the kids with mucous running down their noses in endless streams clamored to have.
I didn't mean to say the toys them selfs were cool or even were constructed well. I have to admit, I was given one by someone in my family at some point. Which ever the red car had to be. I believe it was an earlier model, standing about 3-4 inches high or so, and actually seemed well constructed. I no longer have it as it disapeared with my newphews. It had no such silver / pigment streek. I believe it was one from this collection. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple /1986/ http://www.geocities.com/superjinrai/1985/ botcars. jpg
I also got the Arial bots at some point... these I believe to be a later construction... overpriced plastic crap about as complex as a toothpick. http://www.geocities.com/superjinrai/1985/aerialbo ts.jpg I think they were a quarter a piece, bought because I thought they might have some value to someone. I was sadly mistaken.
Transformers(tm) as a toy, concept wise, were cool in the fact that they were a touch more complex then action figures, more akin to puzzles actually. So you have hand eye cordination, visualization, and manipluating objects in space. And i'm all for developing these skills in children rather then just pure imagination. I'd support the purchace of decent transformers over GI Joe any day.
I've got old Doctor Who episodes, Quantum Leap, every episode of Sliders, some A-Team eps, along with Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and a few dozen other shows
I have had issues getting doctor who via kazza. Not that I wasn't able to get some, I just can't seem to get all the ones I want in a specific story. Problem being doctor who is a pretty massive set to carry, and popular enough to be annoying to share.
But I have to thank kazza kindly for having a shared copy of the first episode of Firefly not shown on air.
Re:Small Wonder complete epsides, for example?
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I think this is something else best left forgotten. There is a piece of me that remembers moving away from a small town that only had 3 VHF stations to a town that had 6 VHF stations which included the new fox network. I'm thinking this was 1985, and the fox network was too bad for words.... but it was something to watch after all and i had seen all ABC, NBC, and CBS had to offer.
Then I made friends and didn't tune to fox until the simpsons.
Re:Bad 80s is much better than bad 2000s
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these shows from the 80s that you speak of weren't bad for their time. A-Team and Knight Rider kicked ass, and lots of people watched them
No, they were pretty bad for their time period. The only reason people watched them was
1. There was nothing better on 2. Everyone didn't have cable to find something better.
Knight Rider, a show who's ad campain said to dial some 800 number inder to get details why the KI3000 is better then the Dukes of Hazzard car. What's worse is this marketing attempt has been sited as a good use for an 800 number.
I'll give you Friends... that ranks up there in three's company in my book, popular enough to have a few spinoffs, and likely to be shown just for it's cheeze value.
X-files, while I didn't typicaly watch it, had some some decent writing.
Seinfeld is harder to judge, but I rank it much higher then a-team, air wolf, or knight rider.
Whiz kids I remember... specificly I remember the reporter or whatnot had a laptop which he jacked into the handset line of a standard telephone, rather then the wall line. It seemed odd to me, but the Tandy 300 I believe had an acustic coupler attachment which might have permited you to do just that. It's hard to say.
I also remember the relationship between the lead geek and the younger sister, and how she always tried to get him into trouble, yet he always took accountability for anytime she did wrong. Most interesting as my household blame was handed over from oldest to youngest... he did it, she did it, he did it, the baby did it.
At the time, I heard it was taken off the air due to the fact that the network didn't want to glorify criminal behavier, or some other 80s nonsence.
Re:Some things are better left lost, like GAH
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After a man named Hinkley attempted to assasinate president Reagan, they changed his name to "Hanley" because they didn't want to be associated with him. For a while they simply called him Mr. H.
I've read that.. not matching 100% with my memory though.
I believe that the students, in particular the Tony fellow, just called him Mr. H independent of the Reagan attempted assasination. I believe also that season 2 was already filmed, or mostly filmed before these events caused concern among the network, hince the poor editing of any reference to "Hinkley" or poorly dubbed "Hankley".
It's hard for me to be sure, as i'm going by one vague net reference which would agree with you to some extent, and watching the series recently. I'm familar with that explanation though, which just adds to the cheesy factor of the series. What you said was mostly correct, just the choice caused them to retro fit some of the episodes shown on tv.
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http://rectaltronics.com/
I was actually searching for info on Dec Vax systems, and I found this page. And indeed I found something that was compatable with the VAXstation... looked into it.. and it was the "Compatibility Guide for Rectaltronics(tm) Butt-Plug Systems"
It's pretty professional looking, I wasn't sure what analbus was at the time, and I was shocked to discover they were selling buttplugs. To prove whether it was a joke I tried to order to 1111 any street with the credit card 4444 4444 4444 4444, and at that point they freely admited it's just a joke.
You'd be surprised what people will just throw in the trash.
"Ain't it a shame when folks throw away a perfectly good white boy like that" -- some john cusack film... perhaps better off dead
"Mom, can we have some Stove Top Corn Bread?"
Not that I would buy Stove Top products, but it seems odd that the only network who carried their corn bread comercials was BET. While corn bread is soul food... it seems to be just a popular dish all over america.
What exactly is "easier for women to use"?
I have a hard time understanding this sexist concept my self. I own a HP PSC 950 and I find it remarkably easy for *PEOPLE* to use.
Printing is easy, as you described
It accepts memory cards and will print off a proof sheet without your PC being on. Further, you can check the little box with a #2 pencil, put it on the scanner and it will print off which pictures you want independent of the PC.
You can scan to the fax or scan to the PC just by using the buttons on the top level.
It's not that this design is all that unusual, Dell has a printer which has most of these fuctions, I believe it's the lexmark 1100 but don't quote me on that model number. It requires the PC on to peform it's fuctions, and it's onscreen twain software has pull down menus to choose whether you want to send the image to the printer, file, e-mail, or fax.
It would be really hard to improve on such printers where you can get the job done with only a few clicks on screen or buttons on the printer it self.
Non-technophiles would assume that the net is anonymous because they are given no reason to think otherwise.
Just like the telephone is anonymous if you don't say your name... oh wait.
Hmm....I kinda thought making mixed tapes/CD's of music you had purchased WAS fair use....why pay extra for that?
Assuming we're talking about computer software, while licenses my varry but according to the SPA now known at the SIIA while licenses my vary the law is clear, one disk = one license for one machine, one backup by be used.
A *mix* tape opens up the door to piracy in this way... let's say you bought an album and only enjoy one track. Fair use would be to copy that track you like onto media with a bunch of other tracks you like. Ok, you have the songs you want, what do you car happens to the CD? You can lend it out to a friend while still having your mix tape, you could loose it, but what do you care as you still have your mix tape. Or you can sell it to a 2nd and record store and get something diffrent, but you still have your mix tape.
There are those who feel that buying music media only gives you license to play that media on one player at one time. If you had a household where both you your mates could listen on diffrent players at diffrent locations at diffrent times, but on only one purchaced copy.
Now the key diffrence between music media and computer software is the fact that computer software spells out their EULA, where they grant you specific rights to the product where tapes/CDs/vinyl don't spell this out for you. I would think that the same rule that applies to software should apply to all forms of media, after all it's software as well. But that would make too much sence.
Great multi-tasking hardware: e.g. opening four CLI windows, typing "format df0:" in each one and watching the Amiga simultaneously format the same floppy disk four times over! (Try that on a PC!)
That legacy floppydrive on the PC still buggs the living shit out of me. It's not like a PC floppy drive is any diffrent then the amiga one. I know I argued this point with amiga geeks pre 1990, and proved it many times getting rid of surplus 720k floppy drives that were worthless by this point.
It's not like your modern PC floppy drive doesn't have a disc change line that could tell your PC you inserted a damn floppy disk, but to this day when dealing with multiable floppy distros it will still ask you "please insert floppy and then press any key to continue".
Don't make me think about it... While I'm by no means a neat freak... I'm among those who actually don't pee in the shower. I've not heard a compelling enough reason to support peeing in the shower other then just being lazy. If I really need to pee that badly, i'll run the risk of getting the floor shower wet and walk to the toilet.
It's hard to tell what would have happened had C= not gone into the PC market. Atari went bust (though Atari did make one failed attempt to enter the PC clone market too)
Not as bad as Atari's attempt to enter into the VME market.
Commodore ploughed absurd sums of money into a PC division which, as you say, launched pretty laughable systems. It believed that proprietary systems such as the Amiga only had a finite lifetime after which only PC clones would be taken seriously
Which in reality, one reason to get a PC clone by the time the 386 was released was upgradability and standardization lowering production costs. Even back in 1990 you could get an AT case for about the $50 spectrium where an amiga case cost you a fair bit more. Same with the Amiga keyboard vs an AT keyboard.
I have to agree their PC clones were pretty piss poor as far as bang for the buck. I actually wanted to support Amiga at the time, I was willing to buy one of their clones, but they cost about $1000 where I got a VIP 386sx16 system for under $600... circa 1989/1990 or so.
I'd have to agree here. I can't see any companies making notable purchases of this OS
GEM os seems to have something resembling a nitch market. I would think that AmigaOS wins out over other choices because of it's very small CPU and memory requirements. As a desktop machine, I'll agree it's crowded, but as a handheld device it would hold some promise.
What ticks me off is that all these companies that buy Amiga IP simply don't have a clue what to do with it.
Something from the rumor tree... my vague memory seems to recall the fact that the amiga approach to desktop and windows was actually their IP that they fought for and won in court. I don't know if this applies to the auto hiding [file] bar, or the pull down shade windows when operating something in a diffrent graphic mode. I could be wrong, it's not like I actually *read* any of their court documents.
I would think it would be nice to have that ability with software running open GL. Near as I'm aware, the only software auto hiding [file] bar is internet exploder in full screen mode. Alas if this indeed is IP of Amiga then it will likely be lost in the paper shuffle.
It [apple II emulation] was real hard to use it though, especially near impossible for warez people. Needed Apple disk drive and Apple rom chips.
That's because the woz thought it was a good idea to use a tape drive controler on the floppy disk drive. Actually i'm sure circa 1970s this was a cost effective means of actually getting disc storage, so I excuse him for this faux paux. What annoyed me was the simple fact that once disc drive controlers lowered in price they never bothered to upgrade the apple II floppy drive.
As far as the apple roms go... I don't think they were popular enough to be pirated.
That the true blue amiga zelots will actually give me a copy of workbench 3.x without giving me the speach that piracy will kill any chance amiga has for a comeback?
It's a big shame. If Commodore hadn't been so PC focussed in the early 90's, they probably wouldn't have gone bust, and we might even still have the platform - in some modernised form - around today.
So PC focused? near as i'm aware they only released an xt, an AT, perhaps a 386sx or so. I still own a commodore b&w vga monitor that I bought from the only amiga shop in town. I guess I honestly don't have any details as to how much in the way of resources they put into the project. Were they like gateway and dell selling getting cheep pre-exising motherboards or did they go full swing and try to make an ibm compatable from the ground up.
I think the usual complaint I find easier to believe was marketing. Right about that time period, web-tv style devices were getting into vogue. Commodore had their CD32 system I believe it was called. Even a 68020 would make a decent internet terminal, and all the software to do it was freeware at the time. And what better way to sell your higher end machines then selling a base model game machine / internet terminal, well assuming they even thought to make one net ready.
Another drawback was the fact that microsoft gave away much in the way of development kits upon request, where commodore would charge you lots of moolah for the same damed thing. Say what you will about microsoft, but I found commodore as a company to be a bigger bastard tward those who wished to actually support the platform where microsoft seemed to actually WANT people to write for it. Commodore seemed to communicate the attitude it was a privliage to write for the Amiga.
But the primary power PC application between 1985 - 1990 was word processing. Not to dismiss the video toaster or other newtek products, nor postscript support. Mac and PC had word perfect, and they both had word. I forget what the last program I used on the amiga with my apple laserwriter, but while I could get 3rd party applications to create bitmaps to import into my word processing app on the amiga, it was a hell of alot less painful to use objects in word. Hell, most people would have prefer the lisa to get pie charts in their documents.
Reading that page again, it says that it's got 8mb of RAM rather than ROM. 1mb ROM doesn't sound like enough to do anything cool
Should be enough to tftp something cool from elsewhere on your network.
...when the mods consider "don't pick your asshole and THEN use the keyboard" to be informative. Is slashdot hygiene really this awful?
Modern society's obsession with disinfecting everything is weakening our immune systems.
At the same time, places like computer work stations develop a remarkable amount of organic trash and all sorts of nasty germs. While there is a problem living in a steral enviroment, there is a greater problem living in a sespool. Your workstation should be cleaned and vacumed.
Problem is, in this throw away soceity of ours, the typical business enviroment isn't hip on paying someone to clean keyboards / mice / PC cases. I clean my keyboard from time to time. that is pull all 104+ keys, and throw all the plastic in the dishwaser. This would be impractical for a business to do, far more practical to just buy another damn keyboard.
Damn microsoft natural keyboard
Except, one person I know who had collected a bunch of them in the 80's managed to sell his entire collection for $3500 a year or so ago.
Everyone knows that one person who collected crap and sold it for an insane price. My problem is I'm not very good at pointing out which specific crap is going to actually be worth a damn in a year or two.
They're hideous chunks of cheap-assed made-in-$INSERT_THIRD_WORLD_MANUFACTURING_HELLHOLE _DU_JOUR plastic crap that all the kids with mucous running down their noses in endless streams clamored to have.
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I didn't mean to say the toys them selfs were cool or even were constructed well. I have to admit, I was given one by someone in my family at some point. Which ever the red car had to be. I believe it was an earlier model, standing about 3-4 inches high or so, and actually seemed well constructed. I no longer have it as it disapeared with my newphews. It had no such silver / pigment streek. I believe it was one from this collection.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Templ
http://www.geocities.com/superjinrai/1985
I also got the Arial bots at some point... these I believe to be a later construction... overpriced plastic crap about as complex as a toothpick. http://www.geocities.com/superjinrai/1985/aerialb
I think they were a quarter a piece, bought because I thought they might have some value to someone. I was sadly mistaken.
Transformers(tm) as a toy, concept wise, were cool in the fact that they were a touch more complex then action figures, more akin to puzzles actually. So you have hand eye cordination, visualization, and manipluating objects in space. And i'm all for developing these skills in children rather then just pure imagination. I'd support the purchace of decent transformers over GI Joe any day.
I've got old Doctor Who episodes, Quantum Leap, every episode of Sliders, some A-Team eps, along with Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and a few dozen other shows
I have had issues getting doctor who via kazza. Not that I wasn't able to get some, I just can't seem to get all the ones I want in a specific story. Problem being doctor who is a pretty massive set to carry, and popular enough to be annoying to share.
But I have to thank kazza kindly for having a shared copy of the first episode of Firefly not shown on air.
I think this is something else best left forgotten. There is a piece of me that remembers moving away from a small town that only had 3 VHF stations to a town that had 6 VHF stations which included the new fox network. I'm thinking this was 1985, and the fox network was too bad for words.... but it was something to watch after all and i had seen all ABC, NBC, and CBS had to offer.
Then I made friends and didn't tune to fox until the simpsons.
these shows from the 80s that you speak of weren't bad for their time. A-Team and Knight Rider kicked ass, and lots of people watched them
No, they were pretty bad for their time period. The only reason people watched them was
1. There was nothing better on
2. Everyone didn't have cable to find something better.
Knight Rider, a show who's ad campain said to dial some 800 number inder to get details why the KI3000 is better then the Dukes of Hazzard car. What's worse is this marketing attempt has been sited as a good use for an 800 number.
I'll give you Friends... that ranks up there in three's company in my book, popular enough to have a few spinoffs, and likely to be shown just for it's cheeze value.
X-files, while I didn't typicaly watch it, had some some decent writing.
Seinfeld is harder to judge, but I rank it much higher then a-team, air wolf, or knight rider.
Whiz kids I remember... specificly I remember the reporter or whatnot had a laptop which he jacked into the handset line of a standard telephone, rather then the wall line. It seemed odd to me, but the Tandy 300 I believe had an acustic coupler attachment which might have permited you to do just that. It's hard to say.
I also remember the relationship between the lead geek and the younger sister, and how she always tried to get him into trouble, yet he always took accountability for anytime she did wrong. Most interesting as my household blame was handed over from oldest to youngest... he did it, she did it, he did it, the baby did it.
At the time, I heard it was taken off the air due to the fact that the network didn't want to glorify criminal behavier, or some other 80s nonsence.
After a man named Hinkley attempted to assasinate president Reagan, they changed his name to "Hanley" because they didn't want to be associated with him. For a while they simply called him Mr. H.
I've read that.. not matching 100% with my memory though.
I believe that the students, in particular the Tony fellow, just called him Mr. H independent of the Reagan attempted assasination. I believe also that season 2 was already filmed, or mostly filmed before these events caused concern among the network, hince the poor editing of any reference to "Hinkley" or poorly dubbed "Hankley".
It's hard for me to be sure, as i'm going by one vague net reference which would agree with you to some extent, and watching the series recently. I'm familar with that explanation though, which just adds to the cheesy factor of the series. What you said was mostly correct, just the choice caused them to retro fit some of the episodes shown on tv.