new.morning wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <[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. >>> >>> 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 >> > > Cammodore 64, bought off the rack at price club. It had a heavy spread > sheet program! If it was Excel then a friend ported it to the C64 when he was at Microsoft.
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