Mmm... acoustically coupled modems.
-sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT RE: HP drive sleds Hehehe... I recall seeing a Trash-80 as a kid and thinking "wow! That's nifty!" Then along came those fancy Apple ][ machines with their fancy 5.25" disks! J Speaking of disks... I watched Wargames last night... Dual 8" floppies! *shudder* J From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT RE: HP drive sleds All you kids with your fancy disk drives. Tape was where it was at! -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 8:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT RE: HP drive sleds My first computer was a Commodore Colt PC10. It had *gasp* MCGA Graphics or Hercules graphics, configurable by, as I recall, a DIP switch. It had dual 5.25 floppies. I bought it at Service Merchandise for like $300 or so. My *second* computer was a true blue IBM PC. Don't recall the model, but it had a whopping 20 meg hard drive and a 3.5" floppy (I *think* it was a 1.44 floppy drive, even! <G>) It had a built-in VGA monitor and ran Windows 386. (NO, I did NOT mis-type... it had Windows 386, the version immediately prior to Windows 3/WFW 3.11.) I had that for years until I built my first PC, a *gasp* 386. J From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT RE: HP drive sleds On 4 Dec 2009 at 15:42, Sean Rector wrote: > My 1st HD was a 20MB Apple for my ][GS - back in 1987. My first HDD was a $399 20mb Full Height 5-1/4" Seagate for my Zenith Z-152 desktop, probably at the end of '87 or '88. I paid $3k for that machine with 320k of RAM, dual 5-1/4" floppies (no HDD), a green monochrome monitor, and an Okidate ML-92 9-pin printer (which I still have). I souped it up from 4.77 MHz to 7 MHz with a V-20 chip and added RAM to 1 megabyte. Also souped up my modem from a 1200-baud external to a 2400-baud external, after which I could no longer read the Compuserve forums as they downloaded -- had to get OzCIS to download the forums and read them off-line. I ran a Wildcat BBS on that machine for many years .... finally gave it away to my kid's preschool with a bunch of learning games after upgrading it to CGA ;-) -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 ~! No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.426 / Virus Database: 270.14.97/2550 - Release Date: 12/07/09 07:33:00 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.426 / Virus Database: 270.14.97/2550 - Release Date: 12/07/09 07:33:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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