On Mar 3, 3:13=A0pm, HK <payer33...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Vic Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:17:55 -0800 (PST), "jim.isbell"
> > <jim.isb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >> On Mar 2, 9:38 am, "Bill Kearney" <wkearne...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>>> I have been on the internet since the days when it was black and
> >>>> white, text only.
> >>> Gee, then you're a newbie. =A0Most early screens weren't black and
whi=
te
> >>> (plasma, amber, green, etc)
> >> Not so. =A0Most were Black and White CRT. =A0If you had lots of money
> >> maybe you had green or amber. =A0I had amber..
>
> > I went with the first IBM PC, the 8088, 64k mem, single floppy deal.
> > Tricked it all out a bit later, so it was a hot rod. =A0Heh.
> > Think I paid 2700 bucks for the barebones.
> > The IBM monitor was the green.
> > Clones were coming with amber monitors, and to my eyes they were
> > "tacky." =A0Never told anybody that until now.
>
> > --Vic
>
> You got screwed, too, eh? Did you add a second floppy drive at the cost
> of, what was it, about $350? I sold that machine off and got an Eagle
> 8086 based "rocket" with a graphics card and an amber monitor that would
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I remember my computer geek (back then Clayton Walnum wrote manuals
for Que and other companies) he was by no means an amateur. I think
the quote he gave me was something like "who the heck is going to fill
up 20 mb anyway";)
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