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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (284994)	4/21/2006 9:56:57 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572676

Adam Osbourne was in the microcomputer industry from the beginning. I know he wrote books about the early processors and how to program them. Eventually he started a company that produced the first transportable computer, the Osbourne. Tiny screen, 5 1/4" floppies, weighed probably 25 pounds. 4MHz Z80, 64k of RAM. It was an incredibly popular machine. Any way, they hired this marketing guy from a soap company or something like that. At one of his first press conferences, he said words to the effect "if you think our machine is great, just wait until the new model is out!". Needless to say, that is what everybody did. There were a couple of delays and voila! Osbourne wasn't a company any more... That's a funny story.......actually, its a sad one too. I never heard of him before. On another topic......did you see what I just posted to JF? A short while ago, Stanford student protestors were waiting for Bush to visit the campus, calling for his resignation. The police were holding them back. Bush's helicopter circled and then decided not to land.