CP wrote --

> What's an old "commie"? Commode Odor?

   Yea, a Commode C64.
   I got my Commodore in 1986 and around 1988/89 my first modem, a 300
baud, after I found out about local boards and later the wider world of Fido.
   I used the Commie until c. 1995 when I bought a used IBM 286.
   Around 1998 I got a used 486, with Window 95.  The case had been damaged
but the innards were fine.
  Around 2000 I got a used 486 with Win98.
  The older 486 had given up the ghost and the pc shop I used had the Win98
on sale.
  I've only brought two new PC's, a HP in January of '09 and this one last
February, also a HP.  IIRC the 486 was a HP.
  To me HP's are the best.  But then that's a Ford/Chevy thing.

> My main jokes & puns collection is on my IBM(true blue) DOS 486, that I need help connecting back up (c/w a new 21" CRT for SVGA graphics)

   Maybe you can find someone with one to transfer all that over.
   I recall wondering how in the world a little 3.5 could hold as much
information as a 5.25 then later how in the world could a thumb hold more than a
3.5?  If this keeps up it will someday be how much information can be held
on a grain of sand.  :)
   Joe   
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