"Tim C." wrote in message
news:687iu396eojoh1clo4gngkn0hf3f579v3u@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:35:56 -0500, erilar
> wrote:
>
>>> When you've got a separate entry for every Startrek programme ever made
>>> and
>>> every home computer ever manufactured and just about every piece of
>>> software
>>> ever written your error rate is very low indeed.
>> It's not exactly something one would want to seek out for
>>scholarly use either, needless to say 8-)
>
> Unless you're writing a history home computers...
Not much use for that either...
The articles are written by partizans of the device being described.
Nobody writing on Wikipedia has any interest in badmouthing the 'Sadbastard
68000' home computer, it's dead and gone and nobody but a couple of poor
saps who bought them and have invested time and money on a dead device
actually care.
Reading Wikipedia about old computers you'd think they were all superb
machines marketed by idiots, the reality may well be so, but having owned
a couple of them and worked on more I can assure you that they were mostly
junk until IBM got into the game.
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
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