[Coco] CNET does a cracking open of a Coco 2

[Frank Pittel]

The difference Jim is that unlike a lot of the "young turks" is that you know
enough to know that you don't know (say that three times fast!) and you can
admit it. The "young turks" I work with will never admit that they don't know
something or that they're wrong.

Frank


On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:06:12PM -0800, Jim Cox wrote:
> I'm getting a kick out of reading this thread because I work with a lot of
> young turks who think they know everything, and while they may know a lot
> about current technology, they certainly don't know much about the older
> stuff (and the same can be said about me with regards to systems prior to
> the CoCo)
> 
> Keep up the ripping, I'm enjoying it :-)
> 
> -Jim
> 
> On Feb 12, 2008 2:17 AM, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 11, 2008 9:34 PM, William Schaub <wschaub at steubentech.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't get how people can be that clueless. I swear people today think
> > > nothing existed before 1998 or 2000.
> > >
> > > I wonder if that coco is even really dead, or if he just couldn't figure
> > > out how to connect it to a TV set.
> >
> >
> > A quick trip to the Wikipedia entry for the CoCo would have been a good
> > starting point, but I guess the writer of the CNET article was either on a
> > haste or a wee bit lazy to do some solid basic research. It's a sure bet
> > he
> > didn't have a regular TV set with the... huh... appropriate
> > cable/connectors
> > to hook up the CoCo, thus the quick DOA note on the slideshow captions.
> >
> > The TechRepublic article has a few more photos than those shown in the
> > CNet
> > article:
> >
> > http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-13636_11-186100.html
> >
> >
> > -=[ R ]=-
> >
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