Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Moondog
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue May 03 2022 08:25:00

-=> Moondog wrote to Kaelon <=-

 Mo> I read about a computer that was used mainly in classrooms in Russia,
 Mo> and it's name was the Russian word for Apple.  Collectors have
 Mo> confirmed they were pirated Apple clones with Wozniak's notations left
 Mo> in the BIOS.

Compaq reverse engineered the PC BIOS much in the way they described in 
HACF, although with some theatrical license on the show. I always thought 
that Cardiff was supposed to be Compaq, seeing as they were both in Texas 
and both battling IBM in the marketplace.

Compaq didn't come from a mainframe background, though.


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