Showing my.... experience<g> I have two invoices hanging on my wall (historic significance).
The 12K or RAM from January 1978 and a 1981 purchase of a 5150 with 128K, a floppy and a hdd and a Smith Corona TP-1 printer for... more than I paid for a new car the same year. The accounting prof who nearly flunked me for using "Visicalc" on a project are still great friends.. I'll never forget him grudgingly trudging to my dorm room to see the "other" computer on campus. Fanfold paper..... how about yellow rolls... my first printer was a telex machine with a converter board that I soldered together from plans in a magazine. Hung it on the back of a Tandy TRS-80 At 07:50 PM 4/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Someone is showing their age... Remembering cassette drives.... Shame on >you.... You have to at least used fanfold-punched paper tape on a regular >basis and 4K RAM was $595.00.... 1977 era. > >Mike > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Adolph W. Santorine, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 4:48 PM >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Laws against Spam > > > > and 12K of RAM was $1,000 > > > > (December of 1978) > > > > Cassette Drives, anyone? > > > > > > At 04:22 PM 4/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > > > >| > > >| FWIW, the canned meat is "SPAM" (all caps), whereas unwanted > > >| E-mail is > > >| "spam" (all lowercase). > > > > > > > > >Once upon a time, everything was either upper case, or toggle switches - > > >I remember. Getting your hands on a "crt" that could do both upper and > > >lower case was really something. Look how far we've come - Now even our > > >lunch meats are case sensitive. > > > > > >%^b > > > > > > > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > >to be removed from this list. > > > > > >An Archive of this list is available at: > > >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > > >Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > >questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > >--- > > >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > > > > --- > > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > to be removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > >Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked >questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
