Most of my audio equipment has these glass and mica thingies called "vacuum
tubes". Very popular during World War 2, You know, the one where President
Johnson freed the slaves.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that
considered a hostage situation?**
-----Original Message-----
From: Sysadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, November 07, 1999 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Way back when...... was some other topic
>When I was in 8th grade, they had these "Commodore Pet"
>terminals, networked together somehow to a central drive,
>good greif that was an old system, and if more than one
>person tried to access the central drive, it HUNG!
>hehehe Not only was it a bug in the setup but a mistake.
>
>But by themselves the Commodore Pets were decent
>little computers, by the way if anyone knows of these,
>what in the world was the "Rom Rabbit" that could
>be activated by typing 'sys*4096"?--aka "rabbitised"?
>
>On Sun, 07 Nov 1999, you wrote:
>> I bought a Sinclair something or other long before the Times incarnation
and
>> couldn't get it to work.... so I bought a Commodore VIC-20 with 5K and a
tape
>> drive for about $500, summer of 92, eventually upgraded it to 32K.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hugh wrote:
>>
>> > I had one of those too, You could add extra ram buy pluging it into the
>> > back. A whole 16 k
>> >
>> > On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote:
>> > > I remember the days of my Timex Sinclair T1000. A whopping 2k of ram.
>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > From: Sysadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 3:22 PM
>> > > Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard
(humor)]
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > Wow, they taught us CPM in trade school, kind of reminded me of
>> > > > DOS, it had a C compiler to build the executables and such.
>> > > >
>> > > > We were trained on the old Z80 microprocessor.
>> > > > I also remember Centix, the old business unix then too.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote:
>> > > > > >>Dating myself, but my first operating system was trsdos on a
radio
>> > > shack
>> > > > > model
>> > > > > I, back in those days the competition was between apple and
trs-80.
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Rick<<
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Keep this up and I'll get my Amstrad 6128 out of the loft and
start
>> > > using
>> > > > > CP/M again.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > John the Nadger
>> > > > >
>> > > > > http://www.goon.freeuk.com
>> > > > --
>> > > > Normal=boring x 100
>> > --
>> > Boling's postulate:
>> > If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
>--
>Normal=boring x 100
>
