Subj : Re: No Agenda Podcast
To   : Moondog
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Sep 28 2022 06:57 am

-=> Moondog wrote to Wormwood <=-

Mo> I also miss zdnet and TechTV.  It' sbeen ages since I listened to twit.

I was just thinking back to the first dot-com boom/bust in 1999-2001. I was
working at a startup in San Francisco, and MSNBC started with a base in SF
as a tech TV channel. Interesting times.

Mo> Speaking of Dvorak, there's an episode of Computer Chronicles where has
Mo> an appearance with the "new" IBM PS/2.  He was there to demonstrate
Mo> it's "tool free" disassembly for upgrade and service (no need for tool
Mo> kits in the future. )

Mo> He had a hell of a time pulling it apart.  The clips and brackets
Mo> worked real well.  ZDS tried that and we had to use a fiberglass blade
Mo> tool to act as a lever and shim.

That's surprising - I worked in an IBM shop in the early '90s, and all the
old PS/2s (model 25, 50, 60 and 80) all came apart with a quarter, as long
as you weren't removing the motherboard.






 Other than that line, they went back
Mo> to screws because clips would break, and items held together by
Mo> friction or connector tension woul d work their way loose.  Replacement
Mo> parts would come with screws or zip ties.
Mo> 
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