RE: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General

["Dave Reid" <daver1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

WOW, oh the memories. Does anyone remember the lowly Tandy MC-10
(I traded a stereo for a used one) 4K RAM, 20K if you sprang for
the 16K RAM pack ($175). Plug into the color TV and my radio
shack tape deck. I think that was back in 1983 or 1984. In 1987
(I think) I can still remember paying $4000.00 for my
Tandy 1000SX, 1MB RAM, twin 360K floppies, Tandy 16color EGA
graphics, Daisy wheel printer, NO HARD DRIVE, mouse,
GEM Desktop and GEM Draw.

I still remember piecing together my first 8086 with a very
expensive 20MB MFM HD, which I later converted to 32MB by
replacing the MFM controller with RLL - back in the days when
you had to low-level using debug. Then onto my BBS Days - SuperBBS
running behind Front Door .... ahhhh SRE, BRE, LORD,
Yankee Trader - so many doors, so little time :) The fun I had with
OS/2 2.1, hoping it would spell curtains for windows. My first 340MB
Hard Drive - WOW, 3 months after saying I will never fill that up,
having to run good old STACKER to double my storage.

Thanks everyone, this little trip down memory lane made me a little
teary eyed, but cheered my whole day.

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Regards, Dave Reid (Night Rider)
Never engage in a battle of wits unarmed!
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-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carrie
Bartkowiak
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:10 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General


When I was in college in 1988 I had an 8088 that was the workhorse for
the entire floor, because it was faster than the library's computers
(now if that ain't sad) with its little 9-pin printer. Everything was
in DOS and I even had WordPerfect on there - LOVED that program back
then. It had a 200MB hdd that I had compressed 400MB of data onto and
it still ran like a charm.