On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 22:19 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> >
> I love it!  You guys should go on the Letterman show, or something.
> But I must tell you that I kept a 4" diameter roll of paper tape, punched
> on a model 35, for over 30 years, in my desk, thinking it might come
> in handy someday.  Of course, it never did, and when I retired, I threw
> it out.  OTOH, I once went to a seminar where switch programming was 
> demonstrated.  When computing was a baby, you really could do it
> yourself.  I bet most of the pioneers once had a Commodore. Altho the 
> richer ones probably had a Radio Shack.  Remember them? The company
> I worked for then had a bunch of secretaries typing in manuals on 
> TRS-80's. (I think that was the number.)  I guess that was even before
> CPM, altho not by an awful lot.
> 

I owned a TRS80-4P up until I could afford to buy my first 486.  I did
word processing on it.  We still had Windows 3.1.1 and I think it was
DOS 6.0 on that DX2-66 with 4 meg.  I think its guts are in a box here
some place.

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