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   -=> Gaylen Hintz wrote to Dave Drum <=-   
      
    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)=   
      
    GH> 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).   
      
    GH>  wow, that was a bargain back in those days. :)   
      
   Actually it was about standard (in my area). For $100 more you could get   
   a dual floppy drive and have both a:/ and b:/ drives. And you had a    
   choice of 8" or 5.25" drives. Thannk providence I didn't go with the 8"   
   guys. They were fading fast, even thsn.   
      
    DD> Ahhhhh .... the best thing about the good old days is that they're in   
    DD> the rear view mirror.   
      
    GH> ah come on now, just think how much fun you had learning all this   
    GH> stuff and it carries on to today.  Imagine growing up and getting   
    GH> into computing with only the point and click interface. :)   
      
   Or thinking you *HAVE* tobe tethered to your $mart-a$$ phone.  Bv(=   
      
   Helping my brother clean out a basement storage space the other day I   
   came across a Coleco Adam I had bought his daughters in an attempt to   
   wean them away from Q*Bert and Donkey Kong to more productive pursuits.   
      
   HAH! As if.   Bv)=   
   ... MS-DOS=suit & tie, Macintosh=cool shades, Amiga=high heels & leather   
      
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