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Old 10-30-2014, 11:51 PM   #120
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Originally Posted by Jack Torrance View Post
Some of that sounds like pulling an ECU from a Mercedes and wtf it won't work in my Toyota. IBM had proprietary components back in the day.

Just sayin
Not disks.

Apple and Sun would have special firmware put in standard disks that mostly responded with a special handshake. The Apple and Sun computers wouldn't have anything to do wih disks that didn't have the special firmware.

IBM was proprietary with big iron, but made a deliberate decision to go with standard hardware for personal computers. They also had a gold plated microcomputer line that did not take off.
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