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My manager David Redell represented Xerox. He complained bitterly that 10 megabits per second was needlessly fast (3 mbps was enough!) and it's true that it greatly slowed adoption - only super mini computers and above got full ethernet initially! However it was the right choice for analog repeaters and to enable large flat networks (few routers) and 10 mbps made ethernet a premium system for those who had the bucks, setting it up for eventual cost reduction (thinwire, 10BT) and long-term success!


1. Head tube should aligned with the fork. GPT-5.6 Luna is particularly terrible here.

2. Bikes are almost always depicted going rightwards so you can see the drivetrain. 4 failures in this.

3. Only ~7 of the 23 models achieved a diamond bicycle frame shape

4. Almost all the models have the bird directly over the crankset; as little as 4 or 5 have the birds sitting on a set-back bicycle seat.


The jump from TPS-L2/WM-1 to WM-2 was ENORMOUS. Like, WM-2 was TINY - 75% the size of TPS-L2/WM-1. They were almost done before they got started! I know I got one Xmas 1981 and it was stolen in 1984 but now I have 3x.


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