--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > 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. > > Oh, the good old days... :-)
What! you got stuff back from the main frame in REAL TIME. Jeeez, that was high tech. I remember submitting a stack of cards to the MF, and then having to wait 12-24 hours to get results back. Shit another minor syntax error in this stupid Fortrash. OK, retype another stack of cards .... This was a few months befor Humboldt 70, when Dean Brown of SRI said that someday, students would hall have computers the size of a text book, that they could carry around, and would contain all knowledge. "Jeez, what a loon! Where are the cards????!!! ":) (Actually he was a very good speaker, dignified sort of guy.) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
