CoCo2 and audio cassettes FTW! Regards,
Phillip Partipilo [email protected] On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:01 AM, "Steven M. Caesare" <[email protected]> wrote: > All you kids with your fancy disk drives. > > > > Tape was where it was at! > > > > -sc > > > > From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 8:57 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OT RE: HP drive sleds > > > > My first computer was a Commodore Colt PC10. It had *gasp* MCGA > Graphics or Hercules graphics, configurable by, as I recall, a DIP > switch. It had dual 5.25 floppies. I bought it at Service > Merchandise for like $300 or so. My *second* computer was a true > blue IBM PC. Don’t recall the model, but it had a whopping 20 meg ha > rd drive and a 3.5” floppy (I *think* it was a 1.44 floppy drive, ev > en! <G>) It had a built-in VGA monitor and ran Windows 386. (NO, I d > id NOT mis-type… it had Windows 386, the version immediately prior t > o Windows 3/WFW 3.11.) I had that for years until I built my first P > C, a *gasp* 386. J > > > > <image001.jpg><image002.jpg> > > > > From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:45 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT RE: HP drive sleds > > > > On 4 Dec 2009 at 15:42, Sean Rector wrote: > > > > > My 1st HD was a 20MB Apple for my ][GS – back in 1987. > > > > My first HDD was a $399 20mb Full Height 5-1/4" Seagate for my > Zenith Z-152 desktop, probably at the end of '87 or '88. I paid $3k > for that machine with 320k of RAM, dual 5-1/4" floppies (no HDD), a > green monochrome monitor, and an Okidate ML-92 9-pin printer (which > I still have). I souped it up from 4.77 MHz to 7 MHz with a V-20 > chip and added RAM to 1 megabyte. Also souped up my modem from a > 1200-baud external to a 2400-baud external, after which I could no > longer read the Compuserve forums as they downloaded -- had to get > OzCIS to download the forums and read them off-line. > > > > I ran a Wildcat BBS on that machine for many years .... finally gave > it away to my kid's preschool with a bunch of learning games after > upgrading it to CGA ;-) > > > > > > > > -- > > Angus Scott-Fleming > > GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona > > 1-520-895-3270 > > ~! > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.426 / Virus Database: 270.14.97/2550 - Release Date: > 12/07/09 07:33:00 > > > > > > > > > If this email is spam, report it here: > http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam > THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND > PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR > USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, > ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE > RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER > AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS > MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
