Give a Big Cheetah to CWB!

Post #91,186 by deSitter 3/24/03 8:45:49 PM Reply	Give a Big Cheetah to CWB! The world's most reknowned 386. -drl
Post #91,564 by Silverlock 3/25/03 8:20:17 PM Reply	Wasn't that... the name of the hardrive mfgr? I know he named all of his boxen. What was the name of the infamous 386 to which he added the Cheetah? (Is this the original box he had when he first started his column?) As an aside, of the various celebrity guest writers different tech rags have had over the years, my favorite has always been Penn Gillete. On the "Last Page" of which dead tree magazine? (anyone remember his April fools article?) The world is only a simple place to the simple.
Post #91,567 by deSitter 3/25/03 8:28:24 PM Reply	Re: Wasn't that... "Somewhere out there, a Big Cheetah is still running WordStar and extremely anal benchmarks..." -drl
Post #91,578 by Silverlock 3/25/03 8:55:47 PM Reply	ICLRPD if I've ever seen one. (new thread) Created as new thread #91577 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=91577\|ICLRPD if I've ever seen one.] The world is only a simple place to the simple.
Post #91,599 by Ashton 3/25/03 9:48:54 PM Reply	I think.. it was a Compu-Pro Super heavy-duty and fast-for-time S-100 bus thingie. Fast.. prolly limited by memory du jour. Since it was all-new when I got my Osborne1, I tended to look at all the toys. This box was made to decent lab-quality with no shortcuts. (And before Xtra memory became the mantra - believe that the version of CP/M able to address a Whole 128K.. came too little and too late to make much of a ripple - but commercially? I could be way wrong.) Compu-Pro's digs were located near Oakland CA airport Anyway, I'm sure a saw such a box in Byte, when he was drooling over the acquisition - and being helped by the mfg. and such. (Maybe too Big cheetah was YAN box.. it all fades into mist) Ashton
Post #91,610 by cwbrenn 3/25/03 10:06:12 PM Reply	I thought that Big Cheetah was the name of one of JP's computers. He had given them all whimsical names, if I remember correctly, but I can't remember what they were. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #91,712 by Ashton 3/26/03 2:19:07 AM Reply	A Compo-Pro he named that.
Post #91,726 by cwbrenn 3/26/03 6:31:59 AM Reply	Oh. LOL. Sometimes it takes me a while. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young

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