dmt@hocsl.UUCP (04/23/84)
I wonder if the editors of BYTE ever read the ads they print.
A few amusing examples from the April issue:
- Two competitive manufacturers of semiconductor buffers
for print spooling use the same pun in their slogan
-- "wait reduction". (pages 79 and 103)
- A reader "asks Steve [Ciarcia]" for a source of a 512K
S-100 board for his Z-100 computer. Steve replies,
"the largest dynamic RAM boards that I have seen
on the commercial market for the S-100
bus are 256K." The ad ON THE FACING PAGE (413) is for
S-100 boards of 384K to 896K, specifically for the Z-100.
My kids get their laughs from MAD comics; I read the ads in BYTE.
Dave Tutelman
PS - to compete with the WAFERVAX discussion on the net, see the
letter in "user-to-user" (page 404) asking about the rumor that
AT&T will bring out the 3B20D on a single chip; the reader asserts
that "it's a board-level product now." (The 3B20D, for those who
don't recall, is the duplicated-for-reliability supermini.)