August 1987; Volume 5, No. 10; Whole No. 58

CFOG's PIP, August 1987, Volume 5 No. 10, Whole No. 58, page 11

Who is an Orphan? One Man's Opinion

[This is a message from the Lillipute Z-Node. -- bhc]

Msg #6568 07/26/87 by Richard Jacobson

          To: ALL USERS
       About: Orphans (29 lines)

My firm is having increasing struggles finding IBM PCs. Since IBM has dropped the product, we live on dwindling supplier overstock. Like most big operations, we are not 'permitted' to use anything but IBM equipment (this is true for a significant number of American businesses). So what do we do? We will wind up doing what all America will wind up doing. We will be forced to replace all our machines with OS/2 machines. 3.5 inch drives, etc.

The point that seems to have eluded many, if not most, is that the IBM PC is dead meat -- an orphan. Clones? American business does not buy clones, at least not button down, power, Harvard Business School American business, which is the only American business that counts. Clones are dead meat as well. It's OS/2, my friends. Good luck to IBM PC owners who are gonna be scratchin' their cute little empty heads tryin' to figure out how to stuff 5.25 inch disks in 3.5 inch drives, or how to get 3.5 inch disks to work in 5.25 inch drives.

I take some pleasure in hearing about the 'installed base'. It seems I heard that about CP/M in 1982. 'Installed base' or no, dead meat is dead meat. Long live OS/2. In the meantime, those who remain 8 bit enthusiasts because of the greater throughput of these machines continue to gain deepening understanding of their systems down to the bare wire. Most IBM PC owners have little understanding of their systems on the integration level and could care less. Their orphanage is going to be painful. In contrast, our 8 bit orphanage is a pleasure. After all, if all the cretini leave your kingdom, life is improved. No?

CFOG's PIP, August 1987, Volume 5 No. 10, Whole No. 58, page 11

RDCBM21.LBR for Commodore 128 Users

[Found in COGWheels, newsletter of the Cincinnati Osborne Group. -- bhc]

        From: Rob Welder
          To: All
          Re: C-128 Users

Tired of switching back and forth between CP/M and C128 modes? Tired of downloading via the 128 and trying to switch the file to a CP/M disk? Getting your disks all mixed up? Then your troubles are over.

Get RDCBM21.LBR. It boots up in the CP/M mode and will read a CBM disk in Drive A. It supports the RAM expansion, GEOS files, 1541, 1571, one or two drives.

[Now in the CDOG disk library and on CFOG II. -- bhc]