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|    Alan Beck to All    |
|    Mac - before they went to Intel Chipset    |
|    21 Apr 20 06:45:34    |
      MSGID: 1:229/426.36 62641291       CHRS: IBMPC 2       TZUTC: 0300       REPLY: 83.fidonet_classicc@1:226/17 230374c2       Around 1984 I was walking around my College and saw a big glass room, full of       keyboards and boxes with TV's on top of the, at least that's what they looked       like.              I realised, this is the future, I had better learn to type, so I took typing       in a room full of women (felt wierd)I learned on those electric IBM       typewriters.              I just recently sold my C64 stuff to pay for ham radio toys.              Cheers,       Alan              I am older now.                      CS> Re: Mac - before they went to Intel Chipset By: August Abolins to        CS> Charles Stephenson on Sat Oct 26 2019 06:50 pm               AA>> I ended up with a iMac G3 (the all-in-one egg-shaped design) when the        AA>> previous owner had a "forgot the password" issue, around 2010 (I think).               AA>> With some help from a fellow fidonet echo friend, I managed to get one        AA>> of the earlier OSX OSes on it.               CS> I remember when iMacs came out, it was a DREAM to own one! I went to        CS> grade school in Brooklyn, NY and one of my classes had a TSR-80, another        CS> had an iMac. When I saw that, I KNEW computers would be in my future!        CS> -+- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux        CS> @ ORIGINAL: The New Frontier ][ BBS [frontierbbs.net:23] - OH (1:226/17)              --- WinPoint Beta 5 (359.1)        * Origin: WinPoint (1:229/426.36)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 120/340 601 154/10 226/16 30 227/114 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/426 452 981 1014 240/5832 249/1 206 317 400 317/3 322/757       SEEN-BY: 342/200 633/280       PATH: 229/426           |
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