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-=> Gaylen Hintz wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> BBS (home brewed on a Burroughs Mini-Frame) a multi-line affair which
 DD> would get me connected to (gasp) usenet. And trying to view 80 column
 DD> porn on a 40 column screen.  Bv)=

 GH> hehehehehe, that must have been quite a trick. 

 DD> Which prompted my next computer purchase - a PET 8032 ... still a
 DD> monochrome, cassette storage machine with a lordly 32K of ram and an
 DD> 80 column display. It also had a real ieee printer port and supported
 DD> a disc drive (only $395).

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

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

 DD> Ahhhhh .... the best thing about the good old days is that they're in
 DD> the rear view mirror.

 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. :)

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

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

HAH! As if.   Bv)=
... MS-DOS=suit & tie, Macintosh=cool shades, Amiga=high heels & leather

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