They had those in the Commodore magazine. There was almost always a typo somewhere, or you couldn't always tell if there was a space (or how many), or if that was a period or a comma. And once you got it right, you could save it to your cassette recorder! Hey, tape backup! What a concept!
________________________________ From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009 I remember buying magazines for the ZX Spectrum that contained games - if you had the patience to type in every line of code required. And then finding there was a syntax error somewhere on line 5040....halcyon days 2009/6/11 paul chinnery <[email protected]> Yes, I remember Computer Shopper. I can also remember when CDW was Computer Discount Warehouse. Actually, I kinda wish I had kept my old Color Computer (CoCo) magazines. That's back when TRS came out with their Color Computer with it's Motorola 6509 chip. Came with a whole 8k of memory. I remember doubling the memory by piggy-backing the mem chips onto the second set of chips to give me 16k. ________________________________ Subject: RE: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:24:02 -0400 To: [email protected] CC: From: [email protected] OK, if we are on a nostalgia trip..... I miss the old days when Computer Shopper was the size of a phone book and "The Hard Edge" with Bill and Alice. Who remembers the Loft of Doom and Pepsi Cola? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009 Smile want to see what is in my home office closet, Windows IT Pro magazines from 7 years ago, stacked from the floor to the ceiling, my Wife is still trying to get me to throw some of them out, and I tell her, but what if I need to look something up in some obscure issue from like 2004, she just gives me that "whatever" face and laughs... Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + [email protected] Phone:401-639-3505 ________________________________ From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 6:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009 cleaning out some old clutter in my home office, and found a couple PC Magazines from June 2000 ... Some amazing/fun/sad comparisons Although PC Mag is now out of production, the last issues were about 80 pages or so, June 2000 had 238 pages Crucial was advertising memory upgrades of 64mb for the bargain discount price of $59 versus the $110+ retail of the day / memory today is easily 512mb for under $50 Laptops with 'up to' 14.1" screens were touted in 2000 to have 64mb RAM, 8gb hard drives, and only cost around $2400 Article from June 2000 about IBM's "Really Big Hard Drive" for only $699, had a whopping 75gb capacity ( I do remember scsi server drives in the 4gb-8gb range then ) ... in 2009, a couple months ago, a 1.5tb, yes TERAbyte SATA drive was under $150 ! I almost hate to throw those old issues away .... almost Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ________________________________ This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail(r). See how. <http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_T utorial_QuickAdd_062009> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
