On Jan 30, 2012 7:19 AM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:46:58 -0500 > > Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:41 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On 01/29/2012 02:41 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > >> > > >> >> an MFM controller > >> > > >> > Michael, I think you must be older than you look :p > >> > >> 28. Just got started earlier than most. Also "studied" history. :) > >> > > > > So if you saw them when they were still new and shiny that means at the > > time you must have been > > > > 2 years old! > > > > Child prodigy? > > I didn't see anything new and shiny until I had the money to buy it > myself...Though we did get a Tandy RLX1000 when I was five or six. > When I was (I think) 12, I spent my $200 in savings to buy most of a > second-hand K6-200 when the original owner was upgrading to (I think) > a Celeron 300. >
My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a front-panel (7-segment LED) display between "4.77" and "8.00" And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25")... And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite... As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood... Rgds,
