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On Sun, 14 Sep 97 22:50:25 HST, David Ross wrote: >> >Mac came along), while their early Vectra PC-compatibles were painfully >> >proprietary. >> >> If you think they're proprietary, look at Compaq. > >At least Compaq can run MSDOS out of the box. As I recall the Vectras, >they ran CPM-86 OK, but spoke a very strange dialect of DOS (even >wierder than the one the Sanyos ran). But try getting the Compaq to work with some of the larger 100+ MB IDE or MFM/RLL drives. It's drive types are proprietary like the PS/2s, and video proprietariness is also a problem. Of course, Microchannel is also proprietary, but I like MCA though (32MHz bus speeds!). > >BTW, a friend had an HP of about the same vintage; the keyboard had two >little perpendicular wheels for fast and precise cursor control - worked >great, but seems to have totally disappeared as a concept until the >recent introduction of a single wheel on the new MS mice. > For me, the new M$-mouse seems like a marketing joke, but hey, I only use OS/2 and Linux anyways, so that would figure. Paul >- David > >