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   -=> Gaylen Hintz wrote to Charles Stephenson <=-   
      
    -=> Charles Stephenson spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-   
      
    GH> especially with the cost of ram back then. :)   
      
    CS> RIGHT! I just wrote a post saying the same thing! first   
    CS> Computer/Desktop I actually BOUGHT was a Tandy 1000 SL, I was in High   
      
    GH>  Hmmm, started out with a mighty MC10 from Radio Shak, worked my way up   
    GH> to a Color computer 1 and then finally 3.  Ran a unix clone OS on that   
    GH> and even had a dialup board on that one.  Great fun those days...   
    GH> multi user multi tasking environment on an 8 bit machine. :)   
      
   I built my first confuser from a sandwich baggie of parts and mimeographed   
   instructions that were sold as a "kit" in the back pages of Mechanix   
   Illustrated magazine. There was no storage and input was via dip switches.   
      
   First "store bought" item was a TRaSh-80 Model 1 (level 2 dos) with the   
   16K memory expansion already installed. At the time if one owned stock    
   in Tandy there was a spiffy discount. So, I went to Shearson-Lehman and   
   bought 10 shares. Saved the cost of those shares off the price of the   
   'puter. I remember pounding in the basic programs from the back of BYTE,   
   Creative Computing and .info. And logging on to my first local BBS (home   
   brewed on a Burroughs Mini-Frame) a multi-line affair which would get   
   me connected to (gasp) usenet. And trying to view 80 column porn on a   
   40 column screen.  Bv)=   
      
   Which prompted my next computer purchase - a PET 8032 ... still a    
   monochrome, cassette storage machine with a lordly 32K of ram and an   
   80 column display. It also had a real ieee printer port and supported   
   a disc drive (only $395).   
      
   Ahhhhh .... the best thing about the good old days is that they're in   
   the rear view mirror.   
      
   ... Amiga made it possible. Commodore made it dead.   
   --- MultiMail/Win32   
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