Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the Altair a homebrew computer made by a 'hacker' (can't remember his name), using a Zilog Z80? Or was it an i8080?
Up to that point, Intel themselves probably dismissed the idea of a computer on everyone's desktop. I betch'ca they really woke up to the comsumer market shortly afterwards.
I don't know if many/.'ers have played (read: experiment) much with audio equipment, but if you 'accidentaly' plug your VCR Video out to an amplifier input, you get noise. Most of it is in the high freq. (15 to 50kHz ?) range, so you don't hear much of that. But there is a 60Hz 'carrier' component which, when amplified, is your predominant signal.
So... I have a hunch that CT plugged it in wrong, and the post was a sort of inside joke.
As most people know by now, when you purchace a PC with Win9x pre-installed, you get that nifty shrink-wrapped Windows manual with the EULA. Provided you don't open this package, your refund may await.
However, having worked for Radio Shack, I've seen several systems come and go, and the systems as of late are packaged with the power cord in a sealed baggie with an Acceptance Agreement on that bag.
Hummm.... To use the computer (in any way, even to install Linux from your first boot), you have to open the bag to use the power cord. Oops, you've just accepted M$ licence agreement. No refund.
Have a nice day.
Of course, just grab another power cord from somewhere else;-)
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Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the Altair a homebrew computer made by a 'hacker' (can't remember his name), using a Zilog Z80? Or was it an i8080?
Up to that point, Intel themselves probably dismissed the idea of a computer on everyone's desktop. I betch'ca they really woke up to the comsumer market shortly afterwards.
So... I have a hunch that CT plugged it in wrong, and the post was a sort of inside joke.
Then again, maybe not.
As most people know by now, when you purchace a PC with Win9x pre-installed, you get that nifty shrink-wrapped Windows manual with the EULA. Provided you don't open this package, your refund may await.
;-)
However, having worked for Radio Shack, I've seen several systems come and go, and the systems as of late are packaged with the power cord in a sealed baggie with an Acceptance Agreement on that bag.
Hummm.... To use the computer (in any way, even to install Linux from your first boot), you have to open the bag to use the power cord. Oops, you've just accepted M$ licence agreement. No refund.
Have a nice day.
Of course, just grab another power cord from somewhere else
... they don't exactly fit the bill.
:-)
Anyhoo, the two names that keep calling me are:
Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking
These two were/are definitely pioneers in certain fields of 'space science', so IMHO, they should be the names
Why must they be related anyway? Seems more fitting if both names came from the (relatively) same field of study.
-Dude, I flaked.