On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 20:21 -0700, Carl Spitzer wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 22:38 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat 12 May 2007 22:18, James Knott wrote: > > Also, anyone who's used audio cassettes for data storage can tell you > > about failures! ;-) > > > > TRS-80 days . . . & probs with wobbly plugs! > > TRS 80-4p yeah those where sturdy little machines attached KB, no HD > unless you wanted to buy one the size of a turntable which cost $500. > I still have a disk notch-er for making use of dual sided single density > 5.25 floppies. I donated it many years ago and its probably in a > museum. Came standard with green or black screen and two floppy drives. > I can not remember trashing any disks except when someone set a drink on > one. > > Nice to meet another old timer. >
Ah... nostalgia. Atari 800 & 1200, no HD and TV as monitor. Also Commodore Amiga (A500). Still have all three but haven't fired them up in a while. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
