Re: Free IBM AT

2006-02-23 Thread Aaron Rogers
WOO HOO ... HOOK ME UP JASON!!! I'm interested!!! What do you want for the AT? Aaron - Original Message From: Jason Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LisaList Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 9:50:17 AM Subject: Free IBM AT I don't know if you guys are into collecting vintage PCs at

Re: Free IBM AT

2006-02-23 Thread Peterson, Wade D.
Looking for a IBM PC Jr, if ya got one. Any tablets, and could use a good Apple Wallstreet laptop battery too. Wade -Original Message- From: LisaList [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Rogers Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:04 PM To: LisaList Subject: Re: Free IBM AT WOO

Re: Free IBM AT

2006-02-23 Thread Jerome Vernet
Le 23 févr. 06, à 18:50, Jason Perkins a écrit : I don't know if you guys are into collecting vintage PCs at all, but I just got a free IBM AT that I simply don't have the time to mess with or room to store. It's got 512k of ram, a 286 (w/ the co proc I think, I'll have to look), a VGA card o

Re: Free IBM AT

2006-02-23 Thread Chris M
yeah, especially if you had bough either new. The Lisa was a flop, cost twice as much as an AT (at least), and the AT was a huge success (not knocking Lisa's though - I own one of each :). --- Jerome Vernet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le 23 févr. 06, à 18:50, Jason Perkins a écrit : > > > I

Re: Free IBM AT

2006-02-23 Thread Chris M
my apologies. I thought this was a classiccmp.org mail list post. Neither can be distinguised from the other unless you look at the headers. And I didn't expect to see a PEECEE offered on this one! Please disregard my earlier message...*yikes* --- Chris M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, especi

Re: Free IBM AT

2006-02-23 Thread sauersr
It's truly a shame that the Lisa wasn't a success. If Apple had had better management, perhaps the company's primary platform would have had protected memory. It would have given Apple more credibility and saved users from a lot of pain. The Lisa's failure in the market doesn't diminish the excell

Re: Free IBM AT

2006-02-23 Thread Justaname
My opinion as an Apple employee at the time (79 to 86 in MIS) supports your opinion. It was just plain hubris that John Couch's team thought they knew what people needed (not what they wanted). I just don't have the energy to regale the list with stories from meetings with Lisa development st

Re: Free IBM AT

2006-02-23 Thread Chris M
Im sure some of those stories would prove very interesting. How about publishing memoirs ;)? What could be said, and this will seem in stark contrast to my prior rambling, is that the AT was THE machine for its time. The Lisa was the machine for ANOTHER time. No doubt some of its features were borr

Re: Free IBM AT

2006-02-23 Thread Jerome Vernet
Le 24 févr. 06, à 03:44, Justaname a écrit : My opinion as an Apple employee at the time (79 to 86 in MIS) supports your opinion. It was just plain hubris that John Couch's team thought they knew what people needed (not what they wanted). I just don't have the energy to regale the list with

Re: Free IBM AT

2006-02-23 Thread Jerome Vernet
Le 24 févr. 06, à 04:15, Chris M a écrit : Im sure some of those stories would prove very interesting. How about publishing memoirs ;)? What could be said, and this will seem in stark contrast to my prior rambling, is that the AT was THE machine for its time. The Lisa was the machine for ANOTHE