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David Relson wrote: |
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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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I still have my breedboard. You know, the thing you run the traces with |
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wires with. Heck, I got a couple small ones that still have circuits on |
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them. One is a temp circuit that turns a fan on when it gets above a |
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certain temp. |
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I think my pump controller is still out there too. We used to have well |
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water out here. It was nasty so we had a HUGE filter. I'm talking |
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truck size filter. It held about 2,000 gallons of water if you take out |
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for the filter media. |
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Dang, that has been a while back there. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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