--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > <jflanegi@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" > > > > > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > > > Besides, this PC is only 3 years old, and its 2.8GHz P4 > > > > > > is overkill for what I do. A couple years from now, > > > > > > everything will be multiple cores up the wazoo and fully > > > > > > capable of running the most bloated of bloatware. > > > > > > > > > > > Exactly. v1.0 is never a good deal. Hey remember 640K max > > > > > RAM for DOS with a 4.77MHz processor speed? > > > > > > > > With two 5 1/4 360K floppy drives and no hard drive? > > > > > > > > I earned my living for two years with wunna dose. > > > > > > Didn't have 640K RAM, either. It was 5-something-- > > > can't remember what, 525 sticks in my mind, but that > > > can't be right, can it? DOS 2, I think. Monochrome > > > monitor, of course. > > > > > > And a 1200-baud modem. Oh, the thrill when I upgraded > > > to a 2400-baud! > > > > DOS 2? *Two* floppy drives? 1200 baud? > > > > You were a latecomer to personal computing. I'd > > guess that a few of the folks here beside myself > > remember CP/M and 300 baud modems. > > My boyfriend had one of those. When he'd come over, > it was tough to tear him away from my computer when > dinner was ready because he found the speed so > exhilarating. > > My mother, who was the age I am now at the time, got > a computer before I did for her writing. Unfortunately, > it was a dedicated CP/M running Valdocs that became > orphaned very shortly thereafter, It ultimately got to > be too much of a struggle to deal with its various bugs, > and she didn't have the mental energy to learn a whole > new system. > > My sister and I still have dozens of Valdocs disks > of her writing. We finally found someone at the > Obsolete Computer Musem site who's willing to convert > them for us, if they're still even readable. > > Actually, even before my mother got her CP/M, my > sister and I also had little machines that ran off of > a tape recorder. TCM-something? Can't remember. I > still have mine tucked away in storage. > > > Or even further back, dumb teletype terminals, > > with no monitor. It was basically like a typewriter, > > communicating with a mainframe somewhere at 300 baud, > > printing out both what you typed and what came back > > from the host on rolls of paper. > > Not exactly personal computing, that... > > > > > Oh, the good old days... :-) > > > Valdocs - haven't heard that word in a long time. Zenith? I never saw it in person, just read about it in magazines. Too expensive then for me then.
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