🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3nk7dr$r...@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, jlwo...@unity.ncsu.edu says...
>>joav kohn (jk...@128.174.5.60) wrote:
>>: 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.
>
>Noone bought it because IBM didn't support it.  Don't EVEN think of 
>flaming me on this one, because I got stuck with a PS/2 55sx back 5 years 
>ago.  Upgradable?  Hardly.  Worst computer I ever owned. >Jeff
>
Same here, I had a PS/2 Model 60. When the hard drive went out, I found 
that I could buy a new system, for less than the replacement drive! At that
time only IBM brand was available. Very few third-party vendors even 
supported the M/C adapters. Goes to show that no matter how technically
supperior you product is, it will die on the vine if other hardware 
manufacturers and vendors ignore it.

bobb