| Quoting from a message by David Williams
| To Ted Cramer
| About - Old Folks
 DW> Don't you long for the really old days, when computers came with BASIC
 DW> built into the hardware?! No need either to compile or to load the
 DW> interpreter.
Ain't that the truth, David! I still look across the computer room at
my Commodore-64 and 128, and marvel at what came "standard" in their
operating system: BASIC, color, NTSC, graphics, sound, etc. Heck, the
C-128 came with three operating systems! (C-64, C-128 and CP/M - all
built in and ready to go.) I even used my VHS VCR to do a huge tape
backup one day. What also amazes me to this day is how much could be
accomplished with a simple 64K or 128K memory limit. There were some
really great programs put out in those days, from games to word
processors, databases and spreadsheets. We didn't even know what a
hard drive was back then, nor did we have to talk about things in
terms of megabytes or gigabytes of storage or memory. A really "huge"
program meant it covered more than one 360K single-sided floppy! :)
Operating expenses consisted mainly of a new box of floppies, and
subscriptions to monthly computer magazines like "Run", "Ahoy" and
"Computer Gazette", just so we could get new programs to type in
until we learned how to write our own. Yeah, I sometimes long for the
"really old days"...
Ooops!  Time to spin the hard drive, load Windows, fire up the cable
modem, logon to the Internet, and put in a fresh CD to listen to
while I read my email.  Catch ya later!  
... A 5¬ disk WILL fit a 3« drive, if folded carefully.
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