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   PID: MBSE-BBS 1.0.7.12 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)   
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   TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.7.12 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)   
   -=> Dave Drum spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-   
      
    DD> I built my first confuser from a sandwich baggie of parts and   
    DD> mimeographed instructions that were sold as a "kit" in the back pages   
    DD> of Mechanix Illustrated magazine. There was no storage and input was   
    DD> via dip switches.   
      
    You really were a hearty soul :)  With no storage did you have to leave   
   it run to maintain whatever program you were running or did you have to   
   reprogram it evry time?   
      
    DD> First "store bought" item was a TRaSh-80 Model 1 (level 2 dos) with the   
    DD> 16K memory expansion already installed. At the time if one owned stock   
      
    Hmmm those seem popular to some nostalgic collectors these days. :)   
      
     DD> 'puter. I remember pounding in the basic programs from the back of   
    DD> BYTE, Creative Computing and .info. And logging on to my first local   
       
    hehehe never tried those but as a proud Coco computer owner and a    
   subscription   
   to Rainbow magazine.... spent hours pounding in those programs myself.  I even   
   created a few programs of my own and sold a couple of them to Tom Mix    
   software.   
      
   DD> BBS (home brewed on a Burroughs Mini-Frame) a multi-line affair which   
    DD> would get me connected to (gasp) usenet. And trying to view 80 column   
    DD> porn on a 40 column screen.  Bv)=   
      
   hehehehehe, that must have been quite a trick.    
      
    DD> Which prompted my next computer purchase - a PET 8032 ... still a   
    DD> monochrome, cassette storage machine with a lordly 32K of ram and an   
    DD> 80 column display. It also had a real ieee printer port and supported   
    DD> a disc drive (only $395).   
      
    wow, that was a bargain back in those days. :)   
      
    DD> Ahhhhh .... the best thing about the good old days is that they're in   
    DD> the rear view mirror.   
      
    ah come on now, just think how much fun you had learning all this stuff and    
   it   
   carries on to today.  Imagine growing up and getting into computing with only   
   the point and click interface. :)   
      
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