"Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:40:38 +0100, Jens Bladt wrote:
>
>> By the way. My first PC was 60 MB harddrive at a retail price of 6000 USD!
>> And it's really not that long time ago  :-)
>
>Oh, geez, now _that_ thread is gonna run again ... when I first used
>computers we had to ride a bicycle to generate the power ... well when
>I first used them, the monitor was a stone tablet like in "The
>Flintstone" ... well when I first used them ...

Yeah, well *my* first computer was an 8-bit Babbage difference engine.
'Course, I spent the extra money to get a steam powered one rather than
the kind you had to hook a horse up to...

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Mark Roberts
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