Hmmm...all these trips back in time courtesy of the wayback machine... I remember my first foray into technology was programming basic on an Apple IIe (or something similar) in a ProDOS 3.3 (or could be DOS) in 1983.
I then moved to a Vic 20, followed by a C64 and played around with a TRS80 Model 100....those were the days! > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Frank > Sent: February 16, 2005 4:53 PM > To: CLUG General > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] lurker de-cloaking. [zzzzzzzzzzttttttttppttt!] > > > Heh-heh!! I remember when a buddy of mine blew something like $800 on > RAM. This was when the price spiked in about 95/96 due to "a factory > burning down". (What economists refer to as "commodity marketing" - > kind of like the price of oil, but I digress.) > > Here's the funny part: at $55/MB, that would have been a whole 16 > MB...!! I seem to remember he was quite p*ssed when the price > normalized! LOL Oh well, he had too much money, anyway... *grin* > > Frank > > ps I also started with a Timex-Sinclair 1000. > > > Gustin Johnson wrote: > > > two meg RAM upgrade to just boot (RAM was $100/meg for my > machine in those > > days). > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
