On Monday 04 April 2005 04:47 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote:
> > On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote:
> > > On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote:
> > > | I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4.
> > > |
> > > | Dan
> > >
> > > OMG!  I had one of those.  I think it cost- like -
> > > $1650, which is probably about $10,000 in today's dollars.
> >
> > I still have mine, still works, dabbled a little in basic with it. I put
> > in the extra memory and two 720k drives. Paid $50 for it used.
> >
> > > And the first 386/25.  I still have that laying around somewhere, or at
> > > least pieces of it--4 MEGS of RAM-whoo hoo--that was one hell of a
> > > machine. I actually ran Linux on it, for a while, kernel 1.x something,
> > > maybe 1.2, I can't remember exactly.  Yup, them were the good ole days.
>
> I've got you all beat. I started on a Cosmac Elf with 256 bytes of static
> ram, a hex keypad and 2-digit 7-segment display! An RCA-1802, the best 8
> bit cpu ever built. Composite tv output (40x25), and audio tape storage
> were also available. My brothers and I soldered the components onto the
> motherboard ourselves.
>
> And I walked to work bare feet in the snow, 5 miles, up hill both ways 8^).
But I had to run 10 miles uphill both ways 'cause that bear was chasing me :-D
(first liar hasn't got a chance) ;-)

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