On Mar 3, 3:26=A0pm, HK <payer33...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> justwaitafrekinmin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Mar 3, 3:13 pm, 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:
> >>>> On Mar 2, 9:38 am, "Bill Kearney" <wkearne...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>>>> 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
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> >>>>> (plasma, amber, green, etc)
> >>>> Not so. =A0Most were Black and White CRT. =A0If you had lots of
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> >>>> 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
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> >> 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
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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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> I lucked out with some computer mag writing contracts after getting the
> Eagle, and always had "demos" around. One of my favorites was an S-100
> bus machine that drove me batty, especially since Jerry Pournelle over
> at BYTE magazine had all kinds of guys stopping by to fix his up. I
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Harry, because of the many, many lies you've told here, no one is
going to believe that tale.
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