Comments on: Papyrus- enhanced calendar for Smartphones http://gigaom.com/mobile/papyrus_enhance/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Greg Meadows http://gigaom.com/mobile/papyrus_enhance/#comment-36905 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:17:36 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2004/12/28/papyrus_enhance#comment-36905 JK I more than likely QA tested your Columbia VP. I worked on the assembly line as a kid testing all of their desktop MPC and “portable” VPs. Funny thing I was interviewed and hired at 16 and for years by boss assumed I was in college. Our job was to set the mobo voltages with a meter and glue them with fingernail polish, put them in the burn room and let ‘em cook running a diagnostic test for 72 hours. They were never sued by IBM they just sold more than they could make. I remember sales guys coming onto the floor pulling units out of the burn room early and boxing them up – I saved my 1984 layoff letter.

For a brief time we installed 10MB hard drives I didn’t think it possible to use up such a large disk. I was the king of Zork also.

I have a VP in very poor condition because years later I couldn’t resist desoldering the RAM chips. My parents may have the packaged MS-DOS version 1.5 in their attic. I am looking for a replacement VP as a keepsake for display at home.

like the podcast

Greg in DC

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