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In article <4797.79.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)  writes:

> The following, er, missed the bus (har, har):  Tandy's proprietary
>and semi-proprietary slots, Intel 32-bit slots, Micronics 32-bit
>slots, Phoenix' 32-bit proposal, various backplane systems, AST's
>FastSlots, the PCjr/IBM JX bus, a couple of laptop bus proposals,
>and others lost in the mists of time.

Including all the proprietary 32-bit memory expansion card 
slots that take cards you can never find a source for when you 
want to add more memory beyond what can go on the motherboard....


> Qtronix has decided mice don't need to be institutional beige.  They
>now sell red, white, blue, and black mice.

And microsoft has a mouse that looks like a mouse. Complete with 
eyes, ears, tail and nostrils. And _one_ mouse ball.

> Microsoft and Apple are working together to develop a cross-compiler
>which will allow Windows apps to be moved to Apple's System 7.0.  This
>is very strange, considering Apple's System 7 is a direct competitor
>to Microsoft's Windows.

Not too strange. MS can't be making much margin selling Windows
itself but is probably making a bundle selling Windows _apps_.
> NeXT's NeXTstep/486 missed its shipping date and is now behind
>schedule.  I'm sure both potential customers are anxious.

HAHAHAHA! Got a kick out of this. Poor Mellinger. Wonder who the 
other one is...

> I've raved about my unnatural lust for one of Everex' StepCube cases
>before.  Alas, they're not available separately.  Uniq (510-226-9988)
>evidently liked the cube too.  Their new 486 machine has a similar
>cubical shape, 400 watt power supply, 8 EISA slots, 4 ISA slots, and
>various configurations of guts.  Unfortunately, the only color scheme
>seems to be off-white with a Sun-esque stippled finish, but a can of
>black spray paint would fix it just fine.

Hmmmm.. where can you buy one and for how much? Just the case that 
is. I always wondered why some enterprising cabinetmaker didn't in-
corporate a motherboard, drives, monitor, keyboard etc. into an ele-
gant rolltop desk. You know, the motherboard hidden behind an access
panel on the right, the power supply in a hidden compartment where 
the noise won't bother one, the monitor behind a nice walnut facade, 
the keyboard in a little hideaway partition on the desk (a panel 
slides back and it rises automatically when you press a hidden button), 
the floppy drives just show up as slots to the side of the desk...and a 
rolltop cover to cover everything when you aren't using it...

Hmmm.. then again it wouldn't work for me. My desk usually has an un-
holy mess on it and I wouldn't be able to get at the keyboard. Or what
happens when you spill a cup of coffee? It'll drain down into the 
drive slots....


(Can you tell I'm a little bored here?)  9-) 9-) 9-)



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