jyouells2000 wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <jyouells@> 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! >> >> > Sharp Pocket PC with 2k and Basic, Timex Sinclair, Vic 20, Atari 400, > C64, C-Plus4, Amiga 1000, Amiga 2K, Amiga 1200, Amiga 3000, along with > many pc's and a couple of macs.... One of the interesting things in my field is that publishers think that us old timers who coded on the early machines are the best to hire for products on the embedded systems like the Pocket PC, Palm, Sony PSP, etc. The "kids" are known for writing bloated code.
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