On Monday 04 April 2005 09:16 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > >On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: > >>On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > >>>On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: > >>>| I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. > >>>| > >>>| Dan > >>> > >>>OMG! I had one of those. I think it cost- like - > >>>$1650, which is probably about $10,000 in today's dollars. > >> > >>I still have mine, still works, dabbled a little in basic with it. I put > >> in the extra memory and two 720k drives. Paid $50 for it used. > >> > >>>And the first 386/25. I still have that laying around somewhere, or at > >>>least pieces of it--4 MEGS of RAM-whoo hoo--that was one hell of a > >>>machine. I actually ran Linux on it, for a while, kernel 1.x something, > >>>maybe 1.2, I can't remember exactly. Yup, them were the good ole days. > > > >I've got you all beat. I started on a Cosmac Elf with 256 bytes of static > > ram, a hex keypad and 2-digit 7-segment display! An RCA-1802, the best 8 > > bit cpu ever built. Composite tv output (40x25), and audio tape storage > > were also available. My brothers and I soldered the components onto the > > motherboard ourselves. > > > >And I walked to work bare feet in the snow, 5 miles, up hill both ways > > 8^). > > Do you really want to start comparing who has the oldest hardware > sitting around? I think there is a lady on this list that has us all > beat. (Especial after I junked the model 33 teletype last year.) An ASR 33? I would have killed to get one of those back in the old days :-D > > Mikkel
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