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...buncha young whipper-snappers....
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My first computer was a Radio Shack one. Didn't have an accessible hard drive. Everything was done with floppies. 5 1/4 and 3 1/2. Next one was a Packard Bell. It had a 27 mb hard drive. I remember the sales person telling me I would never in a million years use all that memory.
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I miss my Amiga 500 even more, though... Had to give up on it, though, after I somehow managed to make it impossible to boot from the hard drive carriage and found that my Workbench discs (both 2.1 and 1.3) had succumbed to bit rot. ![]() EDIT: And, man, I miss the days of BBSes. Modern forums just don't have the same sense of community... ![]() Last edited by JD Gumby; 12-10-2012 at 11:28 AM. |
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I'm thinking I'd like to get the Nook HD.
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My first computer was a Digi-Comp I, a mechanical digital computer. My first real computer was a VIC-20 (2K, cassette, but a "real" keyboard). I still have it. Then a C-64, an AT&T UNIX PC (I really liked it - no one else did), Amigas (2000 and 3000 - I still miss them), and a couple conventional PCs. I'm currently building my next one.
My wife has an Ipad. She uses it for videos, reading email, and Skype with the kids. I have a Pandigital Novel, just to play around with it. It's good for games and the reading app is okay. Between my wife's Ipad and my PDN I'm pretty sure I don't need a tablet. My netbook is almost as portable as a tablet, and the keyboard makes it easier for sending email. Plus, I do use it for computer stuff -- spreadsheet, writing, audio work (my hobby), etc. |
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Man... I was soooo jealous of my friend's 286. It was blazing fast! So fast that he had to run a program to waste clock cycles to slow it down to play some games! That thing SCREAMED at 12 MHz compared to my 4.177 MHz 8088!
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