On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:28:54 -0500, wessd
<wessdaniels@comcast.net> wrote:


>>Ok, but state of the art could be said of many computers at
>>any time in history, until a few months go by and something
>>else displaces it as being state of the art. Since it's not
>>reasonably usable by today's standards, I don't see why
>>adding something that wasn't original equipment would be
>>desirable.
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>it's like hopping up an old car...
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Hopped up old cars are fast, and sometimes worth a lot of
money.


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>>Did Byte mention the manufacturer? Contacting them or
>>possibly some employee who was there at the time might help,
>>or the author of the Byte article.
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>i have been all over byte.com, and the internet....
>I believe it was pournell who wrote about it in 1990.
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>around 1990 july or augast/sept.
>but, it could have been 1992 in the same months....

good luck, but it seems a bit masochistic to me.