alt.energy.homepower

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:43:08 +0100, Eeyore wrote:

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> no spam wrote:
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>> Either you're not that old or got into computers late. My first BLAZING
>> FAST machine was a 386 flying along at 33MHz with 4MB or 'you are
>> wasting your money on that much' RAM and a 'you will never fill it up'
>> 105MB hard drive. After much whining I pried enough money out of the
>> wife to add a 2400 baud modem. And she's been sorry every since.
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> Hey, my first 'speedy' PC was a 10MHz 'AT clone' with a 20MB HD !
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> Graham

How about a Rex S-100 bus 4Mhz 32kB Z-80 with two, count 'em two, 16
sector double sided floppies with a full 72 kB on each side? Ran CP/M
with the first version of Electric Pencil ever ported to CP/M. I had to
write the dot matrix printer driver myself.

"Wot? You 'ad a 'ole?"