--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > new.morning 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 > >> > > > > 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. >
The 2 other players in that market at the time were Multiplan and SuperCalc, I think, but I can't remember the one on the C64 (not C64 with the CP/M Z80 cart). What did the Apple II have? 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/
