🚀 go-pugleaf

rf...@jazz.ncren.net (Rob Furr) wrote:
>
> In article <3njik3$e...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, jk...@128.174.5.60 (joav kohn)
> wrote:
> 
> > In article <3nj6n6$l...@krypton.hpc.sdsmt.edu>
> > dmp...@silver.sdsmt.edu (Derik Pates) writes:
> > 
> > IBM came out with plug and play about 8 years ago, and it was called
> > MicroChannel. It offered benifits a million times more than plain old
> > plug and play and still no one bought it. The truth is, 98% of the
> > people out there with a computer will never open it up. And if they do
> > have to, they'll have somebody else do it. And if plug and play works
> > anything like the automatic network setup in WFWG, I don't even want to
> > fathom the possiblities.
> 
> ....and the Mac had plug-and-play long before *that*. And how many games
> are appearing for the MacOS these days?
> 
> 

	Really?  It was my understanding that the original Macintoshes were
'sealed' units; you had to send them back to an authorized Apple shop in order
to do ANYTHING with them.  Of course, about the only thing you could do
in the way of upgrades was in memory or hard drives, correct?


	AJ