26 Sep
2003
26 Sep
'03
8:28 a.m.
Should be " People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Abbreviations "
Acronyms are abbreviations that are pronounceable as a word - e.g. DOS .
Sorry to be so pedantic , I'll go away and get a life.
Geoff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: Old DOS on topic yet?
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
I would like to get an old single floppy DOS
laptop machine
on my local network. Anyone know how to get DOS to work with
a PCMCIA card (uh too new?)
The Poqet computer came out just over ten years ago. It used two memory
cards that were PCMCIA, but before the official PCMCIA standard was
developed. Does anybody know offhand exactly when the PCMCIA standard
came about?
PCMCIA = "People Can't memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"
The Toshiba 1100, and the Atari Portfolio wer out about that time, and
like the Poqet, they had versions of DOS in ROM. (The Portfolio was a
wannabe, Toshiba and Poqet were MS-DOS)