kinggremlin :
AMD's offices hadn't splurged for a color television by 2001? Where did they even find a black and white TV post 2000? Has AMD ever had money?
The tech offices I've worked in haven't generally had TVs (except for video conferencing setups that weren't connected to cable or antenna).
Where we've rec rooms, they've featured pool tables, ping pong, and foosball tables. Active stuff that people would want to do after sitting for hours.
On 9/11, the news sites were so hammered that cnn.com just had a stripped down page. Definitely no streaming video, on that day (not that there were many news clips on the net, back then).
BTW, I'm guessing the black & white TV was just something someone brought in from home. Now, it
is a bit surprising they didn't have anything better with which to test their All-In-Wonder cards, but I guess that stuff wouldn't have been in a rec room. As those things had tuners, they should've had both cable TV and antennas for testing, somewhere in the office.