Robert Wilkinson wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no> > Date: 14 November 1999 07:13 > Subject: Re: Wincoupe > > >> >Robert Wilkinson wrote: > > >> My machines a 166 pentium. > > >> > > >> Wincoupe needs a faster machine than this > >> > > > Martin Wilson Wrote > > >Cor somepeople don't know they're born. I'm only using a Amstrad 386 system > with > >built in megadrive and I'm happy to have it. Fast enough for email and a > bit of > >browsing. 4MEG is ample. 166 indeed thats a bloomin powerhouse of a > computer. > >They don't know there born nowadays. I remember when you could get into the > >cinema, a few pints of beer and a 3 course meal for less than half a > crown..... > > > > > Up until 18 months ago I was using a 286, 16 Mhz, 4Mbs Ram, 40Mbs hard > drive. > > I couldn't afford an all singing all dancing machine. I visited sunday boot > sales. > Picked up a cheap motherboard here, a proccessor there, etc,etc. > My machine cost less than £100.00. It can be done. It is also slow by todays > standards. > > And I also remenber those days, plus taking ration books to the shop for my > mum. > > Bob Wilkinson. (getting cranky)
Car boots I went to one of them but I found the field too bumpy for my penny farthing so turned back. when I got home me and the family got round the old piano. Apples and pears... apples and pears. Them were the days. It was all fields back then.