Amiga, Commodore and Kaypro are back in name only really, not even the same companies (Commodore's name I think is own by a Swiss or Swedish group now). I had to get into storage today and pulled the box with my Commodore 128D out, almost drug it out to mess with but without space or time it stays in the box, waiting. -----Original Message----- From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Charles R. Buchanan Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:44 PM To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [CTS] Re: I need to vent.... That was a rhetorical question, but it does help those youngin's who was wondering though! :-) Thanks Russ! P.S. Who knows, maybe they will try a comeback like Amiga and Kaypro? <g> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:16:48 -0500 While wishing to be somewhere else, "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxxxxx> said this: RB> "Wang Laboratories was a computer company founded in the 1950s by Dr. An RB> Wang. The company was headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts and at its peak RB> in the 1980s, Wang employed over 30,000 people. RB> RB> The company specialized on computers designed specifically for word RB> processing and did not foresee and hence was unable to compete against PC RB> based word processors in the 1980s. The company eventually went bankrupt." Charles - Class of (I'll never tell!) Giovanni - Class of 2004 Leilani - Class of 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------