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Re: A stupid DOS question.....
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Sun, 13 Dec 1998 01:55:46 GMT
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On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 01:19:45 GMT, janssenjasper@hotmail.com (Jasper
Janssen) wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 07:23:09 GMT, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K)
> wrote:
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> > Cool, it has a WD 340 meg drive. Sucker cost $400 dollars new at the
> > time. <shudder> Just think what that can buy now in a hard drive.
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> Going to a totally different sort of off-topiuc now, to keep this
> thread alive :)
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> When I bought my first comp, from my very own money, I bought a
> DX2/66/4 meg/420 meg/14" thingy for $1000, added extra 4 meg (at a
> friggin' $160), and some sound/cd extras... then two months later, I
> bought a 850 meg extra drive... at $250, whicxh twoi weeks later was
> available everywhere for $150 *shudder* They had just had a major
> price-cut :(... And thus the upgrading began. :)
Sucks, doesn't it? I would LOVE to have a new bleeding edge
computer, but I hate that feeling of buyers remorse when the price
drops soon thereafter.
> Of course, this is nothing compared to my mother's first
> IBM/compataible PC.
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> $8000. 8 MHz 8088, 256 KB (Twice as much as standard :) ), 20 megs,
> 360 Kb, 12" mono-green MDA (as in.. not even up to Hercules graphices
> yet :) )
>
> Well. Enough of this off-topic rambling.
Hey, that's what this groups for. :-)
I remember my dad jumping on the computer bandwagon back in the late
70's. He spent several thousand on a TRS-80. With a cassette tape
for a drive! He had big dreams about it's capabilities. I was taking
a computer class in high school, and he thought I could program a
business program for him. Needless to say, that was a joke. :-)
-- Terry K --
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| (...) Yeah, well, technically :) (...) *winces* Well, my current system config includes:a Iiyama Visiomaster Pro 17, a Keytronic KB101 PLUS Professional series keyboard I bought second-hand for $10 about 4 or 5 years ago, washed it, and won't be (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Terry K wrote in message <36731cf0.713752@lugnet.com>... (...) My brother-in-law (at the time) heard I was taking a computer class, and wanted me to do this huge databasing (is that where you melt floppies in a silver spoon and inject them directly (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Going to a totally different sort of off-topiuc now, to keep this thread alive :) When I bought my first comp, from my very own money, I bought a DX2/66/4 meg/420 meg/14" thingy for $1000, added extra 4 meg (at a friggin' $160), and some (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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