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Re: Re: Karin's wisdom...and Wells Street
On Fri, 31 May 2002 Ysobelle at aol_com wrote:
> Come, come, now-- you want old school, I'll pull out my Timex Sinclair
> 1000 with the membrane keyboard and the cassette drive. That was
> bleeding edge back in...hmmm...somewhere back when pastels were still
> cool.
I can't remember whether we owned one of those or merely borrowed one of
those -- it was, like, only $100 or so, right? Came with 1K of memory or
something? FWIW, this summer marks the 20th anniversary of my family's
first computer purchase -- the original, tan-coloured Osborne 1. Before
that, I used to write programs in Basic on my uncle's Trash-80. :)
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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