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On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote:
This thread is like a throwback to 1990. I love it. If I knew of 8-tracks
and vinyl as anything other than counter-culture I would make VAGUE (see
what I did there!) reference to preferring them over inferior digital mp3s.
Those MP3s are made with patented algorithms, y'know. Monopoly!
MONOPOLY!
My first computer, an Exidy Sorcerer, used its top 16kB (that was a
quarter of its total address space) to address a removable ROM pack, which
could contain various software packages (though the only one we actually had
was the one that came with the machine, which held the BASIC interpreter).
As a cost-saving measure, Exidy built the ROM packs for the Sorcerer using
components that were already readily available because they were
mass-produced for a market far larger than the personal computing market...
Sorcerer ROM packs were built into eight-track cassette shells.
And I'm using pine here, and it handles HTML email just fine.
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John Campbell
[email protected]
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