: Awesome terminal.
: I know that Hamish is obviously...Hamish, but not our Hamish, Trojan Hamish
: (I think?), but who are the other people? They're only referred to by
: their first names. I'd assume they were all involved in Trojan's
: development?
Yes, the Hamish here is Hamish Sanderson, the brains behind Trojan. I'm not sure about the identities of the others, but there are dozens of clues to the roles of each person on the team from the elements in the story in this terminal. I was hoping for a bit more commentary from the group however, as this terminal is worthy of extensive mining.
I thought it interesting and amusing to hear the computer specs listed. The PB 190 was pathetically slow from the day it was introduced. Even my snail-paced PB 520 with its 25MHz LC40 processor was blazing fast by comparison. I had to smile when I read the specs on the PB 5400 - that was the one with the batteries that caught fire, if I recall correctly. Two gig hard drive? 160 MHz 604e processor? A whopping 12.1" SVGA screen? 6X CD-ROM? Built-in Zip drive (this was way before USB, let alone flash memory)? A 33.6 modem? Wireless printing (that was wireless via IR, not WiFi)? Oh, and a SCSI slot (way before FireWire)!? Oh, it leaves me quaking in my boots! I wonder how long before people start talking about the pathetic 17" PB G4 with it's cramped 80 GB hard drive (yes, I know they're up to 120 GB now, but I'm talking about my year old PB), only 2GB of RAM, it's snail-paced 1.5 GHz G4 processor - not even made by Intel, the crude 1400X900 display and it didn't even have a Blue-Ray or HD-DVD-R/RW drive! And it was heavy - it used batteries (they didn't have fuel cells back then) and the display was made of Glass! Hadn't they heard of organic LED's? Oh yeah, they were small and inefficient back then. :^)
