20 Sep
2025
20 Sep
'25
1:33 p.m.
Only project I did for the 6502 was a multitasking forth with voice synth
for a communications system.
It felt strange after Z80 and PDP-11, but at least it was bare metal and I
owned zero page.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Something that I could never understand, . . .
USA decided that Japanese were "dumping" chips (selling below cost to grab
market share)
So USA put a punitive tarriff on handheld power tools and LCD screens.
(NOT on the productsbeing "dumped")
USA manufacturers could no longer get good prices to get LCD screens for
their products.
Somebody (who must remain nameless, due to proximity of quote) said that
Steve Jobs had goals of USA surviving Japan, and Apple surviving IBM.
Jerry Pournelle asked how we could get Mercedes to start dumping.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
On Fri, 19 Sep 2025, ben via cctalk wrote:
tomorrow,
> shipping some random day every other week.
>
>> --
>> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
> Ben.
On 2025-09-19 2:09 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> Also prices were volatile; announced at one price, and then up or down
on
demand
I thought the same was for most chips of that era, here today, gone