TMOliver wrote:
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> "Greg Procter" wrote ...
>
> >
> > My answer is absolutely straight.
> > I own an IBM PC which is significantly different in specification to an
> > XT.
> > I don't have a manual for it, but I do have a manual for an XT. They are
> > not the same.
>
> To most of us, "PC" simply is the vernacular description first accorded
> small "desktop" computers of IBM/IBM clone genre.
That's entirely due to your ignorance of computers.
>
> IIRC, IBM itself produced a series of machines of this type, including the
> "XT" model and the (earlier, but you're asking for memories from long ago)
> "AT". It's possible that the first or an early example of the series of
> products may have actually borne the "PC" designation, but the term soon
> passed into the more generic usage. I can barely recall my first desktop,
> 1985 or so, an NCR with 2 5.25" floppies combined with the CPU and the
> Monitor, all in single heavy package.
Ok, so you were a later starter. I guess that's not your fault.
>
> >
> > I have spoken to the person originally in control of the machine and am
> > satisfied with it's liniage.
>
> Unless I was present and holding Mac's heavy forequarters whilst he was
> breeding, I was never certain of the LINEAGE of the pups whelped by the
> bitch in question. That's where English Bulldogs differed from my Jack
> Russlls today. Old Mac was dead set on the evolution, dogged and determined
> in his efforts, but physically unable to accomplish it without somebody to
> hold him. Elijah, the Jack Russell, a dead ringer for the King of Tonga's
> prize male, is well able, but easily distracted by alternatives or
> surroundings. As for Hannah, my JR bitch, she ain't gonna stand still for
> anything, much less getting screwed.
>
> Proggy, by any standard, you've got to be denser than any of the other
> members of genus misanthropiae I've encountered to date...
In that case it's a good thing you don't have any standards. |