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- From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: EMPLANT Update and comments!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.043906.5002@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 04:39:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spartan.1992Nov18.043906.5002
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
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- In article <1992Nov17.233158.7657@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> blanke@bigboy
- (Mark Blanke) writes:
-
- >I would also like to say a few words about everything. I know we are having
- >a hard time, and I am as frustrated as a lot of people, but have patience.
- >It's hard being a developer. From experience it's always the little problems
- >that seem to take the longest to fix. And I have seen worse products than this.
-
- It's interesting that at one time, circumstances like this were commonplace.
- When the Altair 88 was released, you had to assemble it yourself and pray
- that it would work. You didn't get any RAM (it was on a separate card) and
- absolutely no software shipped with the product. And yet, thousands of
- these things were sold. Somehow some of the original appeal to computing
- has been lost in the 'plug-and-play' mentality.
-
- We now return you back to our regularly scheduled agenda :).
-