This has nothing at all to do with trademarks. The ex-mayor of Bismarck registered several trade names, which are not the same thing as trademarks. UND does business as UND and not as the nickname of the school, so all Haakenson has done is make a fool of himself, this won't affect anything if UND happens to pick a school nickname that is the same as one of the trade names registered.
You are right about NAPLPS, but those graphics were sure horrible in monochrome black and yellow. I remember that Prodigy would first preload a bunch of stuff during the install, and would always be downloading more in the background while the user wasn't doing anything. I only used Prodigy a couple of days on a trial. Didn't Prodigy get absorbed by Compuserve or some other early online service?
OK, I must have loaded Windows 3.0 then. I know it was real mode, nothing else would work on the V20. I just did it to see if it would run at all. I remember the install floppys were 5.25"
I once installed Windows for Workgroups (3.11) on a NEC V20 (8086 clone) with all of 640K. It would only run in "Real" mode and of course it took ages to boot. Oh, the video was a Hercules card, monochrome of course, with a 12" yellow phosphor monitor. Hard drive was a 20M MFM on an 8-bit controller. I remember that I installed the Prodigy online service's software on it and actually connected over a 2400 baud modem.
So they call themselves "Glide" and have a stylized paper airplane in their logo. Or more properly a paper dart, as these things don't glide very well at all, and only seem to fly if given a strong push and you don't expect much. So this logo says to me that Glide will require a strong (PR) effort to go anywhere at all, and even then it probably won't fly worth a damn. Mindless marketing, I'd call it.
I have a PET that I'm about to throw away. I booted it last about 10 years ago but it probably needs a filter capacitor in the power supply (I think I stole it) and a belt for the cassette deck. If I remember right it has been "upgraded" to 8K RAM but it has the old chiclet keyboard. Somebody added a handle to the rear of the case. I have a cassette with a couple of programs too. Anybody that wants this thing can have it, but you probably don't want to pay for the shipping as it is quite heavy.
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This has nothing at all to do with trademarks. The ex-mayor of Bismarck registered several trade names, which are not the same thing as trademarks. UND does business as UND and not as the nickname of the school, so all Haakenson has done is make a fool of himself, this won't affect anything if UND happens to pick a school nickname that is the same as one of the trade names registered.
It's a high four-digit.
You are right about NAPLPS, but those graphics were sure horrible in monochrome black and yellow. I remember that Prodigy would first preload a bunch of stuff during the install, and would always be downloading more in the background while the user wasn't doing anything. I only used Prodigy a couple of days on a trial. Didn't Prodigy get absorbed by Compuserve or some other early online service?
OK, I must have loaded Windows 3.0 then. I know it was real mode, nothing else would work on the V20. I just did it to see if it would run at all. I remember the install floppys were 5.25"
I once installed Windows for Workgroups (3.11) on a NEC V20 (8086 clone) with all of 640K. It would only run in "Real" mode and of course it took ages to boot. Oh, the video was a Hercules card, monochrome of course, with a 12" yellow phosphor monitor. Hard drive was a 20M MFM on an 8-bit controller. I remember that I installed the Prodigy online service's software on it and actually connected over a 2400 baud modem.
So they call themselves "Glide" and have a stylized paper airplane in their logo. Or more properly a paper dart, as these things don't glide very well at all, and only seem to fly if given a strong push and you don't expect much. So this logo says to me that Glide will require a strong (PR) effort to go anywhere at all, and even then it probably won't fly worth a damn. Mindless marketing, I'd call it.
I have a PET that I'm about to throw away. I booted it last about 10 years ago but it probably needs a filter capacitor in the power supply (I think I stole it) and a belt for the cassette deck. If I remember right it has been "upgraded" to 8K RAM but it has the old chiclet keyboard. Somebody added a handle to the rear of the case. I have a cassette with a couple of programs too. Anybody that wants this thing can have it, but you probably don't want to pay for the shipping as it is quite heavy.