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> My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop |
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> horizontal all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a |
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> front-panel (7-segment LED) display between "4.77" and "8.00" |
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> And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25")... |
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> And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite... |
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> As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood... |
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> Rgds, |
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You mean those small floppies? Remember the big 8 inchers? |
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In the early days, putting a computer together took more than a screw |
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driver. Remember soldering irons and PC board kits with discrete |
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components? I do believe I still have an S-100 bus machine in my attic. |
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Regards, |
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David |
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