शून्यताHätte ich gewusst, dass die Polizei Kriminelle wie Verbrecher behandelt, hätte ich das ja nicht gestartet.
(Arno H., 16 Monate ohne Bewährung) #gnihi #Raubkopierer #VHS #Anno1988
Puzzled, I asked, "But if you can't run the EtherLink Plus LAN Manager drivers, and you don't supply a LAN Manager driver for your board, how can you say that you support the LAN Manager?"
"I think we mean that we support the LAN Manager kind of like we support Nelson Mandela," he chuckled.
Caveat emptor, Or, mor appropriate for this business, cave canem (beware of the dog). (m m) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1988 #OS2
It appears to be sunny and clear, so very challenging and unusual conditions for British drivers. (t b)
"I will not accept that it's a highly dangerous road" (1988)
In March 1988, ITN reported on the notoriously hazardous A19 road in the Teesside area between County Durham and North Yorkshire. A new safety barrier had be...
Mark Eppley of Traveling Software doesn't seem to know the rules: he held a press conference at #COMDEX to announce a product they're actually shipping.
I understand that seven different PR agencies were so horrified they tried to straighten him out: you hold press conferences to announce stuff that you're going to ship #RealSoonNow, not something that you've actually got out the door. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1988
If all the hype about #HyperCard were laid end to end, it would probably circle the earth; but, in fact, much of it is deserved. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1988
In some ways, owning computers is like being a parent.
I often find myself wishing my "children'' had more memory, did their chores faster, and required less nagging.
And I upgrade my system with add-ins, add-ons, and accessories with the same sinking feeling in the pit of my wallet that a parent experiences buying clothing for a rapidly growing infant. (e s) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1988
It wouldn't compile. #QuickBasic 4 kept telling me I had a duplicate definition of a variable named TEACHER. This made so little sense I wanted to sit down and cry. The program doesn't have a variable named TEACHER. There was a TEACHER$, but... (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1988
Leave it to #Tandy to remember that more of the world's buisiness is conducted by small companies than by the #Fortune100. (s a) #Anno1988 #GUI #Deskmate
In trying to design a user interface for #IBM-style machines, #Microsoft's two biggest problems were that IBM considers system software (of all kinds) optional and that IBM managed to sell more than 5 million computers before it even knew there was such a thing as user interface. (s a) #Anno1988 #GUI