Barbara Duprey wrote: > Gordon wrote: >> Ugly Me wrote: >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory L. Forster" >>> <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:19 PM >>> Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. >>> >>> >>>> WOW! I tweaked up the memory as suggested: >>>> Use for OpenOffice.org - 256mb >>>> Memory per object - 128 mb >>>> >>>> OpenOffice really sizzles now. I have an AMD Athlon X2 dual core >>>> 64bit >>>> CPU at 2.6 Ghz with 4Gig memory and WinXP Pro SP3. I have to try that >>>> on my Ubuntu machine (1.6Gig Celeron with 512Meg) >>> >>> To think that an old geezer like me felt I was really racing along >>> when I >>> upgraded my 16K 6502-based machine to 64K. >>> Times sure change, young feller. >> >> Ah! Floppy A and B..... > > These young whippers -- the Apple II+ that was my first PC, in 1978, > loaded and saved only with a tape recorder! Balancing the volumes for > the channels was quite a challenge. The mainframes I was working on > were better, but the speed and capacity were laughable compared to the > cheapest PDA today. >
My first computer was an IMSAI 8080, which I built from a kit* in Nov 1976. Everything, memory, I/O etc., was extra. I also used cassettes with it, but later was able to use paper tape on my M35 ASR Teletype. Back in those days, there was very little software available for sale, so you often had to write your own. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080 *A "kit" consisted of bare boards and bags of parts that had to be soldered to the boards. The whole thing then had to be assembled. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
