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Dave Drum | Gaylen Hintz | TS 1000 |
May 30, 2019 12:01 PM * |
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-=> Gaylen Hintz wrote to Dave Drum <=- DD> BBS (home brewed on a Burroughs Mini-Frame) a multi-line affair which DD> would get me connected to (gasp) usenet. And trying to view 80 column DD> porn on a 40 column screen. Bv)= GH> hehehehehe, that must have been quite a trick. <g> DD> Which prompted my next computer purchase - a PET 8032 ... still a DD> monochrome, cassette storage machine with a lordly 32K of ram and an DD> 80 column display. It also had a real ieee printer port and supported DD> a disc drive (only $395). GH> wow, that was a bargain back in those days. Actually it was about standard (in my area). For $100 more you could get a dual floppy drive and have both a:/ and b:/ drives. And you had a choice of 8" or 5.25" drives. Thannk providence I didn't go with the 8" guys. They were fading fast, even thsn. DD> Ahhhhh .... the best thing about the good old days is that they're in DD> the rear view mirror. GH> ah come on now, just think how much fun you had learning all this GH> stuff and it carries on to today. Imagine growing up and getting GH> into computing with only the point and click interface. Or thinking you *HAVE* tobe tethered to your $mart-a$$ phone. Bv(= Helping my brother clean out a basement storage space the other day I came across a Coleco Adam I had bought his daughters in an attempt to wean them away from Q*Bert and Donkey Kong to more productive pursuits. HAH! As if. Bv)= ... MS-DOS=suit & tie, Macintosh=cool shades, Amiga=high heels & leather --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - telnet://tinysbbs.com:3023 (1:229/452) SEEN-BY: 104/57 106/201 116/18 120/331 123/140 124/5013 5014 5015 5016 128/2 SEEN-BY: 130/803 15/0 153/7715 19/33 35 36 38 50 218/700 222/2 230/150 152 SEEN-BY: 2320/105 240/1120 250/1 261/100 38 266/512 267/155 275/100 282/1031 SEEN-BY: 1056 291/1 111 31999/99 320/119 219 34/999 340/400 342/13 3634/12 SEEN-BY: 396/45 5020/1042 5053/58 712/848 801/161 189 90/1 |
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