[Mgs] Looking for 6V batteries for MGA

[Charles Hill]

BTDT.  When I was in the US Air Force, we were using technology that 
someone would 'invent' 20 years later.  And they would sue someone for 
using 'their' technology and win huge sums.  I suspect that any 
documentation of prior use is still classified.  I also would not be 
surprised to know that some of the same is not still happening today.

Has MS ever actually produced anything original?  Even the original DOS 
was largely plagiarized from CP/M.

Regards,
Charles Hill

On 7/4/2013 12:35 PM, Barrie Robinson wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I was with Marconi in UK for years around mid 60's selling "real time" 
> computers for defence, air traffic control, electricity grid control, 
> and am amazed at how dumb today's "commercial" computing is. We had 
> tracker balls ( a wow "invention" by a later US company - Apple??), we 
> had the touch screen (later "invented by Sylvania)' we had  what is 
> now touted as "multi-tasking" and guess what?  We had the USB only 
> more powerful ( you could string CPUs together and share jobs !!!)
>
> As to programming - MS must be the worst