OT: just for those intersted about analog tape

[Bill Vermillion]

On or about Sat, Jan 08 16:53 , while attempting a Zarathustra 
emulation Jay R. Ashworth thus spake: 

> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:14:12PM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > I see no one came up with a guess as to what Northstar was from
> > the other post - so I guess you or Ken can now tell the world.
> > 
> > Don't disappoint me on that one :-)

> Well, I thought you were talking about the Northstar Dimension, which
> became the Horizon after AT&T threatened to sue them over the name of
> their Dimension PBXen, but it sounds like maybe not?

But before it came Northstar [and you can see it in the very old
ads if you have some early Byte magazine], the company
was called  Kentucky Fried Computers. 

Kentucy Fried Chicken brought a quick halt to that.

This goes to really ancient trivia. The oldest Byte I have is a
bound volume from the end of the first year, and I don't know the
name was changed then or not. I'll have to take a look. I used to
keep all of that stuff until it became overwhelming.  I've been
playing with these 'wee beasties' [Robert Burns] far too long.

I subscribed to The Journal Of Intelligent Machines [Jim Warren's
publication[ when it first came out.  I had 51 issues from the
first.  I never got 52 because that didn't get shipped to everyone
when they were bought out and the name if IMJ was changed
to Infoworld.

Warren founded Dr. Dobbs Journal Of Computer Calisthenics &
Orthodontia [Running Light Without Overbyte], the West Coast
Computer Faire and a few other things as time went on.

Kentucy Fried Chicken brought a quick halt to that.

There were a lot of startups that used names patterned after major
companies.

Locally one was Itty Bitty Machine Company - and of course
the letters IBM meant they had to stop using that shortly.  That
name was in use at least two years before IBM brought out their
PC.

Those days were really fun .

Bill
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