TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: >> >>> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> --- In [email protected], "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... :-) Terminals at EDS. Before that looking at Don Lancaster's book on building a teletype interface for a TV monitor. As a kid I was interested in electronics, robots, and computers. But computers were too crude to deal with when I was in college. I remember in the 60's my sister-in-law taking a course on wiring the board for the computer system at my brother's company. She moved kicking and screaming to Windows because she had worked so long with command line interfaces.
My first computer however was a Vic-20 when they were $88 at K-Mart. I figured it was not much to spend to see if computers were something for me or not. Stayed up all night programming everything in the book and the following week was into machine language then a month or two later got an assembler. BTW, I still have that Vic-20 around here. :) 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/
