--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > jyouells2000 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <no_reply@> 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.... > I was an Amiga developer. I hated it when I switched to PC and screamed > "where are all the registers?" :) > > I also hated Little Endian addressing (and still do). >
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