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Smilingreen
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I remeber the days of the Computer Shopper. I used to go into CompUSA and pick up a copy every 2 or 3 months. I wasted many an hour browsing through those things....
When I lived in Silicon Valley / Santa Clara '74 to '04, me and a co-worker would drive up to Fremont in the East Bay and catch BART to San Franscisco where they'd have these computer shows/meets/swaps at Moscone Center in the early to mid 80's.....man, those were the days. SF wasn't so bad then, either. Hard to believe that is close to 40 years ago.
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Jim I.
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Bought my first PC at CompUSA in the early 90's. A Compaq Presario 486 SX set me back over 2500.00!
And that was '90's dollars!Bought my first PC at CompUSA in the early 90's. A Compaq Presario 486 SX set me back over 2500.00!
I bought an Apple II+ with 48K RAM for $1,200 in 1980.
The next year got a NEC 8023 dot matrix printer for $500.
Used my Panasonic cassette player to save and load programs for 2 years to 1982 until I could afford the 5-1/4" mini-floppy drive which was $500.
I bought an Eagle CP/M computer in 1980 for $5,000. It was fantastic at the time.
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Bought my first PC at CompUSA in the early 90's. A Compaq Presario 486 SX set me back over 2500.00!
SX425 LASER brand PC from Service Merchandise....$1295 plus a $385 Epson COLOR Dot-Matrix printer! Woot!
Jim I.
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Some of that stuff is probably in the Smithsonian now! lolAnd that was '90's dollars!
I bought an Apple II+ with 48K RAM for $1,200 in 1980.
The next year got a NEC 8023 dot matrix printer for $500.
Used my Panasonic cassette player to save and load programs for 2 years to 1982 until I could afford the 5-1/4" mini-floppy drive which was $500.
I never owned a 5 1/4" floppy, but I remember my Dad using them. I switched him over to the 3.5" floppy, then l;ater went all out with the Iomega Zip drives!
We had an Osborne CP/M luggable that I took to university in the days before microsoftI bought an Eagle CP/M computer in 1980 for $5,000. It was fantastic at the time.
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Had a star trek game, asteroids, a thing called Eliza that was a psychotherapist, a text game where you would type, go left, right etc and get killed by a Balrog. Also had useful stuff like a spreadsheet, word processor, database, basic programming language and other stuff I've forgotten. All with about the same processing power as the moon lander.
I just went back and looked at the first couple of pages of this thread.
Thanks Ssayer and everyone else
Thanks Ssayer and everyone else
My ex-wife worked for Shugart Associates, the creator of the 5.25" mini-floppy, in Santa Clara, stuffing PC boards and later performing QA in assembly. They sold SA to Xerox in '77. IIRC, the Apple drive was a modified Shugart SA-400 but with a modified analog PC board on top as the brilliant Wozniak put the drive seek/read/write controls in the Apple O/S.
Surprised there isn't a load running down this piece of paper.
They should do a study to see if a masturbation restriction results in greater discipline issues in the building.... LOL
They should do a study to see if a masturbation restriction results in greater discipline issues in the building.... LOL
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What I really wonder about is how extensive is the school's curriculum that it causes an overload of the plumbing with semen..... So the plumbing gets more semen than defecation and urine?
All I can say is..."wow,"...and too much information....maybe I don't REALLY want to know the answer to that.
Meanwhile amongst students, the hashtags #calltheirbluff - #WeCanDoIt - and #PlugthePipes are running rampant...What I really wonder about is how extensive is the school's curriculum that it causes an overload of the plumbing with semen..... So the plumbing gets more semen than defecation and urine?
All I can say is..."wow,"...and too much information....maybe I don't REALLY want to know the answer to that.
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Server fever used to cost a lot of $$$ especially with 16 Megs of memory!!!
16 Megs! .. no one needs that much memory!!! pfffht .. 640k is the most anyone needs ..