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Maybe some of the computers in your vehicles have MS software running on them.
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</blockquote> That must be why so many american cars have so many computer issues.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></div>
What If GM Was Run Like MS?
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<div class="bbWrapper">I have a Mercury with Microsoft SYNC and I must say, I'm impressed with it. It pairs with my Bluetooth phone and allows me to make phone calls by saying "Call <so-and-so> at home". It works with iPods, USB mass storage, or other USB-based MP3 players to provide music that can be ordered up verbally.<br />
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I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I must admit, it works as advertised.<br />
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My first computer was Z80A-based Northstar Horizon. 4 MHz of 8080-compatible CPU with a massive 56 KB of Static RAM! If I remember correctly, it was over $5,000 in 1979.</div>
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Maybe some of the computers in your vehicles have MS software running on them.
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That must be why so many american cars have so many computer issues.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />
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Now that is a good one.<br />
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<div class="bbWrapper">Give me a pre 1985 car or truck any day over a computer constricted one for reliability and being able to work on them. <br />
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I had a trash 80 and at the time it was brand new and a christmas gift at the age of 5 which I used it exactly for one hour and then never again after that as I had no idea what it was and the only thing I could do on it was write a line of code from the book to get it to say my name repeatedly. That was the most boring gift that my dad could have gotten me at 5.</div>
<div class="bbWrapper">Ah, but give me a brand new Bimmer for comfort fun and technology any day Van. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></div>
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How young are you?<br />
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Does anyone remember using a Rat Shack Trash80 Model 1 with the programs on a cassette player. Take 30 minutes to load a program to convert temperatures and have it crash 28 minutes into the process.
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I had a Texas Instruments TI/99-4 that used cartridges.</div>
