Subj : Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Kaelon
From : Moondog
Date : Tue May 03 2022 13:36:00

  Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: Kaelon to Moondog on Tue May 03 2022 06:47 am

 >   Re: Halt and Catch Fire
 >   By: Moondog to Kaelon on Mon May 02 2022 09:42 pm
 > 
 >  > I read about a computer that was used mainly in classrooms in Russia, and
 >  > it's name was the Russian word for Apple.  Collectors have confirmed they
 >  > were pirated Apple clones with Wozniak's notations left in the BIOS.
 > 
 > That's hilarious! I had no clue about this.
 > _____
 > -=: Kaelon :=-
 > 
This is one o fthe reasons I've always been skeptical to all those urban
myths about people having a 1965 Buick getting 65mpg until it wass recalled,
then got 12mpg like every other land yacht.  The story is usually a
conspiracy by the oil companies buying up and burying fuel efficiency
technology to keep companies from producing it.  The problem is you can only
buy out people in a capitalistic system.  If Cold War era Soviets or China
heard there was someoone building a 65mpg carburator or cheap, easy to service
 enrgy cells, they'd send in spies or an extraction team to steal that
technology.  The Soviets and Red China cannot be paid off from using a
technology that would put them ahead of every country in the free world. 
They were not afraid to freely steal intellectual property.

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