--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" sparaig@ wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "jyouells2000" <jyouells@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > 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... :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I do, Barry but I didn't want do date myself. Kaypro or how > about an > > > > > Ohio Scientific Challenger... > > > > > > > > > > JohnY > > > > > > > > > > > > > Burroughs B3500 with 640 kilodidgits of core memory. Before that, it > > > was an IBM 360 at > > > > school, I think... > > > > > > > > > > Sinclair > > > > > > > That was a late 70's computer, wasn't it? I started to understand a > few realities about the > > computer industry when I noted the chicklet keyboard: mechanical > stuff stays expensive, > > even as computing power drops in price. > > It was a 78 or so mail-order paperbook size PC, with perhaps a > membrane keybard if i remember as part of its body.Or maybe it was an > all screen keyboard. Do you remember Judy / others. It was my first > PC. pre-commodore 64. >
Membrane keyboard with the keys printed on it, 2k ram, z80, 16k rampack that plugged into the back, no color. A good BASIC. JohnY 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/
