It's where your lunch money went . .v. :)

hawk

Bah.

Including a keyboard, case, and power supply.

computers for sissies that can't handle a soldering iron.

What's next--put a program in rom so you don't hae to key it in???

humbug

Hawk

The problem isn't the number interpreting it, but that it's, as you put it, "debatable.". that's not something lawyers let their clients do--we find ways with known meaning.

hawk

Flip the coin on what you're saying: when apple builds a machine in Ireland and sells it to me in Nevada, the state of California is entitled to a piece of the action.

We're not talking about moving taxes on CA activities out of state, but protecting its activity in the entire rest of the world from CA's greedy hands.

Nevada does *not* give these companies a break for which they "qualify"--our tax rate is 0 regardless of size.

hawk

Universal?

Netscape and OpenOffice, just off the cuff, used viral licenses while backed by Netscape & Sun

hawk

The model 200 TRS-80 had that screen, too.

There were three versions of the machine known as the model 100--the TRS-80, Olivetti, and I forget the third. There were minor differences between them.

hawk

I used to run mine on nicads. I think I got 4 or 6 hours: I forget.

Many folks carved space and jerry-rigged a fifth battery to get 6 volts; I ran on just 4--which gave me longer battery life than on the correct voltage (with that type of CMOS, current dissipation was proportional to voltage).

It never occurred to me before, but it likely would have run on 4.5v from three alkalines, and boosted battery life. I'm not likely to put enough hours on ever again to ever find out . . .

However, when the low pow light came on, instead of 20 minutes, yu had 20 seconds . . .

hawk

There *are* we servers running on model 100s out there.

They don't serve much, but they exist.

hawk

so it's finally catching up with OpenOffice 4 or 5?

In 2002 or so, I had OO installed on a couple of lab machines. A couple of my students discovered the pseudo-TeX input method for equations, and it was installed othe rest by request. They pretty much all switched over withoutprprodding.

And Word on Mac did a decent job until 6.0 . . .

hawk

LyX is spectacular for writing complex equations and being able to edit them for the keyboard.

It was the reason I switched from Mac and word 5.1 to unix fifteen years ago. You can write a matrix full of integrals,maneuver about it, and then edit it without your fingers having to leave the keyboard for the mouse,

hawk