Hello Alan.

12 Mar 06 13:47, you wrote to Andrew Leary:

 AI> Andrew Leary wrote to Mark Lewis:

 AL>> That was back when programmers took the time to conserve
 AL>> resources, because at the time RAM and disk space were EXTREMELY
 AL>> expensive.

 AI> Wasn't it though! Funny how things have changed, and that wasn't
 AI> really that long ago.

 AL>> My first computer (an original Tandy Color Computer) came with a
 AL>> whole 32K of RAM, and used a cassette recorder to save/load
 AL>> programs. I remember how exiting it was when they finally came out
 AL>> with a floppy disk drive for it.

 AI> My first computer was given to me with a morse code program so I
 AI> could learn the code and get my amateur HF license, an 8086 with
 AI> 512K, two 5 1/4 inch floppy drives and a 2400 baud modem. I did get
 AI> my HF license too although I never used it much, but I've been
 AI> modeming ever since.. :)


        My first computer was a 8088 running at 4.77Mhz and had two 360K
floppy drives. One of the first upgrades was to install a 20M MFM HD to
put the BBS on and upgrade the 300b modem. It wasn't until a few computers
later that I installed morse code software to help get my HAM ticket.

 AI>  Ttyl :-),
 AI>          Al

 AI> ... * GROWING OLD is Mandatory: GROWING UP is Optional *

 AI> --- MBSE BBS v0.83.15 (GNU/Linux-i386)

Jeff

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