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To: Revel

First computer I owned was a Vic-20 with it's whopping 20K of memory. Walked the dog while my favorite text based game would load from the cassette tape.


114 posted on 11/04/2004 5:01:10 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Congratulations President-Re-Elect George W. Bush!)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Yes I remember when the Commadore was popular. I never owned one. After the Apple experience I did not so much with computers for a while until the IBM PC came out. It was all Dos back then, but at least you really had to be stupid to get a virus in those days.


120 posted on 11/04/2004 5:05:30 PM PST by Revel
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I used a TRS-80 Model II with 64k at work and bought a Commodore Plus-4 with 84K memory for home.

That TRS-80 system (add on floppy drive - 8" floppy -- they didn't have hard drives, and printer) cost around $7,000. The Plus-4 with external 5.25" floppy cost $1,500. That was in the early 1980s.


125 posted on 11/04/2004 5:10:39 PM PST by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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