What If GM Was Run Like MS?

[Hemi 6.1]

Maybe some of the computers in your vehicles have MS software running on them.

That must be why so many american cars have so many computer issues.

 

[Foxbat]

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.

I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I must admit, it works as advertised.

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.

 

[DodgerKing]

Maybe some of the computers in your vehicles have MS software running on them.

That must be why so many american cars have so many computer issues.

Now that is a good one.


And I am a MS guy

 

[Van]

Give me a pre 1985 car or truck any day over a computer constricted one for reliability and being able to work on them.


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.

 

[lakebum431]

Ah, but give me a brand new Bimmer for comfort fun and technology any day Van.

 

[Ramy]

How young are you?

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.

I had a Texas Instruments TI/99-4 that used cartridges.