--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 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. :) >
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