And then go back and find the typos!
-sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT RE: HP drive sleds The first month I had my C-64, I didn't have a disk drive or tape drive. I had to type my programs in by hand from the back pages of COMPUTE (I think that was the name of the mag). On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Phillip Partipilo <p...@psnet.com> wrote: CoCo2 and audio cassettes FTW! Regards, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:01 AM, "Steven M. Caesare" <scaes...@caesare.com> wrote: 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 <image001.jpg><image002.jpg> 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 <http://www.avg.com/> Version: 8.5.426 / Virus Database: 270.14.97/2550 - Release Date: 12/07/09 07:33:00 ________________________________ If this email is spam, report it here: http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
