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To: sleavelessinseattle
The advance of hardware and software over the years has been interesting, to say the least... while trying to "bring up" the older 486 to a level close enough to the newer machine ( so I didn't have to keep switching between different OS's and browsers ) it briefly ran DOS 6.22 and then Win 3.1-- geez, what a pain they were!

I used to be something of a Power User in DOS ( you had to be to get it to do much of anything besides c:.... )and trying to recall arcane stuff like diskcopy a: a: was, ahem! a bit of a challenge. I can recall the thrill of upgrading my old Trash 80 from 384K of RAM to the full 640K... the expense, the long wait to get chips.... and now people throw away old memory that we would have killed for back then... I found a pile of 72 pin SIMM's being used for key fobs at my wife's office. They weren't of any use in my machines, but that shows how common more memory has become.

2-hour commute, huh? Seems like I used to allow 1 hour to get anywhere... always had a rule of thumb-- "in any city, allow at least 15 minutes to do anything, including driving around the block...."

38 posted on 04/29/2002 2:02:52 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: backhoe
My technique is to invest half the dollar value of my vehicle in the combined value of stereo system, Insurance for same, a TOUGH car alarm, and many CD's...I just crank the tunes till I can't hear the sirens or see anything in the rear view mirror because its vibrating in time to the music, and rolll along at 1mph. I'm real good at coasting to a stop without using the brakes...Could have been a Curling Champ!

I miss Dos!!! I can't remember all the little icons and tricks in Bill Gates Abortion of an Operating system...A book I highly recommend is Windows Secrets...they're out for all releases...Its NOT a Microsoft authorized textbook...comes with amazing software extra's and is funny to read as well...Looking up Bill G's kilt so to speak...I must sign off now from bad visual buildup...Pls email Foxnews to put Star Parker on Sean Hannity...I actually taught her to conjugate the Verb "to FREEP" Saturday morning...She's in talks with Fox TODAY!!!

Click here for Foxnews

40 posted on 04/29/2002 2:19:03 AM PDT by sleavelessinseattle
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