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To: nickcarraway

OMG! I started with a C64...in the area I live there were about 7-10 WONDERFUL BBS's...I LOVED doing graphics on Commodores..we had so much fun back then (late 80's early 90's) I remember when some of us went from 300 baud to 1200 we thought it was the MOST amazing feat...then to 2400!! I HATED it when pc's took over- I was a long time adjusting.

WOW...talk about memory lane. They had some fantastic games too..


79 posted on 12/16/2005 4:11:57 PM PST by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: SE Mom
> I remember when some of us went from 300 baud to 1200

Same here. At 300 you could read the text as it scrolled down the screen, at 1200 you had to save it to read offline.

There was a story about some professor who complained to his schools i.t. department because that was happening to him.
Almost forgot, the Techmar add on memory and hard drive for the original A1000. The memory expansion added a whopping 2 meg. for $1500 and the hard drive was 20 meg. for $2500.
112 posted on 12/16/2005 7:24:36 PM PST by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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