Short review of $550 power cord plus a new SWTPC 6800

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/22/2005 at 10:06 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:

>And weren't there '12 transistor' radios in the 1960's where half of the 
>transistors had all 3 leads connected to the ground rail (and therefore 
>they did nothing other than enable that statement to be printed on the
>case).

I hadn't realized that the manufacturers had even bothered to ground the
things...

Sort of like CPU clock speeds today.  Didn't one of the 6809 design team
say something to the effect of "if clock speeds really mattered, we'dve
designed the chip to accept waveguide".

Cheers,
Chuck