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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek
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Oh, we’re playing “first PC”, eh? My first PC had *no* floppies, just a
cassette, until I added a floppy at horrendous expense. 80K capacity each...
Foolishly, I bought 2. For the longest time, whatever year it was, a pretty
good PC seemed to always cost 3000 USD... I think that’s going down, at last.
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Well, when I was young, we didn’t have fancy-schmancy comPUters. We had to use
rocks for all of our computations. And it took all day to collect enough rocks
to multiply 12x12 and our hands would get all bloody from hauling rocks around
all day, and we LIKED IT. We loved it.
JOHN
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| (...) Rocks! Wow you must have been one of the rich kids that I heard about when growing up. We would have killed to have rocks for doing our computations. Our parents would hit us with a switch and use our backsides for doing their fancy adding and (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) Oh, we're playing "first PC", eh? My first PC had *no* floppies, just a cassette, until I added a floppy at horrendous expense. 80K capacity each... Foolishly, I bought 2. For the longest time, whatever year it was, a pretty good PC seemed to (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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