On Mar 3, 3:18=A0pm, justwaitafrekinmin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 3, 3:13=A0pm, HK <payer33...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Vic Smith wrote:
> > > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:17:55 -0800 (PST), "jim.isbell"
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> > >> On Mar 2, 9:38 am, "Bill Kearney" <wkearne...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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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..
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> > > 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.
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> > > --Vic
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> > 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
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Yeah, I did Autocad v1.3 on a 286 12Mhz with a 10 meg HD and I was hot
shit, no one I knew in my field had THAT!
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