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echo: classic_computer
to: Dave Drum
from: Gaylen Hintz
date: 2019-05-31 00:02:18
subject: TS 1000

-=> Dave Drum spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-


 GH>  wow, that was a bargain back in those days. :)

 DD> Actually it was about standard (in my area). For $100 more you could
 DD> get a dual floppy drive and have both a:/ and b:/ drives. And you had a
 DD> choice of 8" or 5.25" drives. Thannk providence I didn't
go with the 8"
 DD> guys. They were fading fast, even thsn.

 hehehehe, yep... my color computer took the 5 1/5 inch floppies 
though single sided double density. Added the os/9 operating system, compiled 
device
drivers for the 3 1/2 floppies and I was in hog heaven.

 GH> ah come on now, just think how much fun you had learning all this
 GH> stuff and it carries on to today.  Imagine growing up and getting
 GH> into computing with only the point and click interface. :)

 DD> Or thinking you *HAVE* tobe tethered to your $mart-a$$ phone.  Bv(=

 bwahahahahah  yeah... that too. :)

 DD> Helping my brother clean out a basement storage space the other day I
 DD> came across a Coleco Adam I had bought his daughters in an attempt to
 DD> wean them away from Q*Bert and Donkey Kong to more productive pursuits.

 hehehehe, with the Ziglog Z80 chip?  Initial price back in 1983 at $600 was
quite an investment wasn't it. :)

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