From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 06:27:25 PDT
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:16:29PM -0700, Martin Joseph wrote:
>
> On Aug 23, 2004, at 4:51 PM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:45:38PM -0300, Steele Campbell wrote:
> >>> Standard disclaimer applies: I have no affiliation with either
> >>> Microsoft (shrug: this is the first of their products I have *ever*
> >>> bought!) or CompUSA. Just a happy customer.
> >>
> >> Happy? Customer? Are we talking about Microsoft here?
> >>
> >> My god, did Hell freeze over, why wasn't I informed?!
> >
> >
> > MS's hardware has been pretty decent since the 16k Softcard, and their
> > software has sucked since Olympic Decathalon.
> Olympic Decathalon! Oh My GOD!
>
> I got a lot of joy out of that POS on the Apple ][ and I am pretty sure
> MS had nothing to do with it.
Nope, they published it.
http://www.apple2world.jp/apple2/COL/MapItems/soft/MICROSOFT/olympicdecathlon.jpg
That games wrecked keyboards. Only some of them could be salvaged by
resoldering the keyswitched back where they belonged.
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