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    PC comes of age![^] And it seems like only yesterday :rolleyes: If you started off in the dark ages like some of us, what computer did you have? I had an RML380Z back in 1977 :omg: State of art UK technology back then, complete with Z80 processor and 16KB memory - eventually I had 32KB which was definitely cutting edge. The metal case was so strong you could dance on it :cool: Alas, it got lost in a house move about 3 years ago :(( JohnJ X| Life is hard and then you die! X| http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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      PC comes of age![^] And it seems like only yesterday :rolleyes: If you started off in the dark ages like some of us, what computer did you have? I had an RML380Z back in 1977 :omg: State of art UK technology back then, complete with Z80 processor and 16KB memory - eventually I had 32KB which was definitely cutting edge. The metal case was so strong you could dance on it :cool: Alas, it got lost in a house move about 3 years ago :(( JohnJ X| Life is hard and then you die! X| http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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      i started with Commodore Pet's in 84 or so. big, ugly, stupid Pets.


      "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt

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        i started with Commodore Pet's in 84 or so. big, ugly, stupid Pets.


        "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt

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        The ones with the calculator keyboards ? :suss: Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?

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          PC comes of age![^] And it seems like only yesterday :rolleyes: If you started off in the dark ages like some of us, what computer did you have? I had an RML380Z back in 1977 :omg: State of art UK technology back then, complete with Z80 processor and 16KB memory - eventually I had 32KB which was definitely cutting edge. The metal case was so strong you could dance on it :cool: Alas, it got lost in a house move about 3 years ago :(( JohnJ X| Life is hard and then you die! X| http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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          JohnJ wrote: If you started off in the dark ages like some of us, what computer did you have? Atari 800 -Jack To an optimist the glass is half full. To a pessimist the glass is half empty. To a programmer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

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            PC comes of age![^] And it seems like only yesterday :rolleyes: If you started off in the dark ages like some of us, what computer did you have? I had an RML380Z back in 1977 :omg: State of art UK technology back then, complete with Z80 processor and 16KB memory - eventually I had 32KB which was definitely cutting edge. The metal case was so strong you could dance on it :cool: Alas, it got lost in a house move about 3 years ago :(( JohnJ X| Life is hard and then you die! X| http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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            JohnJ wrote: what computer did you have? Altair 8800. Of course, it wasn't really useful until I interfaced an ASR33 Teletype to it and wrote an OS (called a Monitor then) for it. "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."

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              PC comes of age![^] And it seems like only yesterday :rolleyes: If you started off in the dark ages like some of us, what computer did you have? I had an RML380Z back in 1977 :omg: State of art UK technology back then, complete with Z80 processor and 16KB memory - eventually I had 32KB which was definitely cutting edge. The metal case was so strong you could dance on it :cool: Alas, it got lost in a house move about 3 years ago :(( JohnJ X| Life is hard and then you die! X| http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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              Is this dark ages enough? A SpectraVideo 728 MSX . Before that I used to play on my uncles ZX81.

              Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
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                JohnJ wrote: what computer did you have? Altair 8800. Of course, it wasn't really useful until I interfaced an ASR33 Teletype to it and wrote an OS (called a Monitor then) for it. "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."

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                Roger Wright wrote: Altair 8800 :omg: Definitely the stone age! JohnJ X| Life is hard and then you die! X| http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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                  Is this dark ages enough? A SpectraVideo 728 MSX . Before that I used to play on my uncles ZX81.

                  Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
                  'ugly naked women are good, when i'm not around, in front of someone else' - Shog9

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                  SpectraVideo 728 MSX :~ no...If it was made after 1980 its definitely a youngster ;P JohnJ X| Life is hard and then you die! X| http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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                    Roger Wright wrote: Altair 8800 :omg: Definitely the stone age! JohnJ X| Life is hard and then you die! X| http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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                    JohnJ wrote: Definitely the stone age! Not at all! Oh, we mucked about for a time banging rocks together, but the results of the computations were inconsistent. Then someone at the bar suggested trying these newfangled transistor thingies, and the Altair was born! A New Adjective Is Born!

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                      JohnJ wrote: Definitely the stone age! Not at all! Oh, we mucked about for a time banging rocks together, but the results of the computations were inconsistent. Then someone at the bar suggested trying these newfangled transistor thingies, and the Altair was born! A New Adjective Is Born!

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                      Roger Wright wrote: Oh, we mucked about for a time banging rocks together, but the results of the computations were inconsistent Obviously someone was using Visual Basic version 0.01 :laugh: JohnJ X| Life is hard and then you die! X| http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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