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To: Random Access
No discussion of oldies is complete without mention of the TI-994A. 16K Ram, 16K Rom and a 16 bit processor. If you had two Radio Shack tape recorders and TI Extended Basic, you were in nerd heaven.

You tell them Old School! Anyone else remember the modem that sat on the desk and you had to plug the whole phone hand set into them?

37 posted on 12/16/2005 2:45:46 PM PST by MNJohnnie ("My job as the President is to see the world the way it is, not the way we hope it is." -GW Bush)
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To: MNJohnnie
Anyone else remember the modem that sat on the desk and you had to plug the whole phone hand set into them?

Yep, darn right! These young'uns don't know what they missed.

300 Baud seemed like lightning after being accustomed to 60 words-per-minute from my Teletype® machine...

48 posted on 12/16/2005 3:11:02 PM PST by backhoe (The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))
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