jyouells2000 wrote: > --- 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). >> >> > > I still have the developer docs on the shelf. Best I ever did was a > program published in Amiga Journal and on the Fred Fish disks. :-) > > JohnY I had some of my stuff on the Fred Fish disks. And I also did some major Amiga titles and went to several developer conferences which were great fun. Some wild and crazy folks worked at Commodore.
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