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On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> On Jan 30, 2012 7:19 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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>> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:46:58 -0500 |
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>> > Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> >> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:41 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> >> > On 01/29/2012 02:41 PM, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>> >> >> an MFM controller |
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>> >> > Michael, I think you must be older than you look :p |
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>> >> 28. Just got started earlier than most. Also "studied" history. :) |
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>> > So if you saw them when they were still new and shiny that means at the |
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>> > time you must have been |
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>> > 2 years old! |
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>> > Child prodigy? |
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>> I didn't see anything new and shiny until I had the money to buy it |
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>> myself...Though we did get a Tandy RLX1000 when I was five or six. |
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>> When I was (I think) 12, I spent my $200 in savings to buy most of a |
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>> second-hand K6-200 when the original owner was upgrading to (I think) |
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>> a Celeron 300. |
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> My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal |
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> all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a front-panel (7-segment |
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> 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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PC, XT or AT? |
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Fastest system I ever used what dropped down to 4.77MHz was a 33MHz 386.. |
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