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|    Dave Drum to Ross Branham    |
|    Re: Today in History - 1977    |
|    06 Aug 23 05:51:14    |
      TZUTC: -0500       CHRS: CP437 2       MSGID: 1:229/452 64CFA5DB       REPLY: 1:267/159 973188ea       TID: Postie 0.13       -=> Ross Branham wrote to Dave Drum <=-               RB> Believe it or not, we still use a TRS-80 model4 where I work. It run a        RB> proprietary enraving machine. Still runs strong. We do have some non        RB> working ones for spare parts.               RB> It was the first computer I ever used.              I moved on to the Commode Door 64 after the TRaSh-80. A number of those       are still in service (the motherboards anyweay) with NOAA reporting on       tides and monitoring costal oceanographic data.              And one of the last remaining video rental companies in USA (Family       Video) ran their whole company on a Tandy 1000 using home brewed Linux       software until their demise last year. It was head-quartered just a mile       or so from my house.              ... MS-DOS=Christianity; Mac=Bhuddism; Amiga=Pagan sex magick              --- Talisman v0.47-dev (Windows/x86)        * Origin: Tiny's BBS II - tinysbbs.com:4323/ssh:4322 (1:229/452)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 106/201 123/131 129/305 153/7715       SEEN-BY: 154/10 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 275 307       SEEN-BY: 229/317 400 426 428 452 470 664 700 266/512 282/1038 291/111       SEEN-BY: 292/854 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848 5075/35       PATH: 229/452 426           |
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