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Cleopatra's gems rise from the deep
London Times ^
| 5/11/06
| Roger Boyes
Posted on 05/11/2006 6:14:37 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee
I'm certain that almost nobody under the age of 50 would have the slightest idea how to use them. I'm 45. I still remember some of it. Got one around here somewhere (in a nice gray plastic case)
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posted on
05/12/2006 8:10:45 AM PDT
by
John O
(God Save America (Please))
To: wagglebee
A diver from Goddios team brings a white marble head to the surface. The piece of find originates from the Roman period that antique city Canopus
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posted on
05/12/2006 8:22:07 AM PDT
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: wagglebee
Here's another pic
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posted on
05/12/2006 8:25:38 AM PDT
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: wagglebee
"And then in 77 or 78 when the Radio Shack TRS 80 computers came out and they cost more than most cars did at the time."
More like '76. I had one of the first 500 built, and they cost $600. Cars were in $2700-5000 range then, IIRC. (New, as my TRS 80 was.) 4K level-1 basic. Later I expanded it to 16K, when the price of memory dropped to where that was $100. I had the $1000 expansion box a couple of years later, a year or so after they were introduced; it was pretty flakey, and I never got a floppy drive for it, but I had 48K of memory by then.
I wanted one of the HP calculator wrist watches; those were also about $600, now you can get something like it, but much more powerful, for a couple of dollars. My, how times change.
BTW, my old TRS-80 is still functioning at my BIL's house. He had to put about $200 into repairing it after a lightning strike in the early 80's, or so I'm told.
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posted on
05/12/2006 5:50:47 PM PDT
by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
To: Old Student
You're right, I went back and did some research, it was the Level II model with the options that wound up being over $3000.00
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posted on
05/12/2006 5:59:27 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
Yep. They were intended as business computers, competing with DEC's PDP-series minicomputers and the like. (and the Apple LIsa? that may have been later...) Those were around $10K or so for a 4K machine with no I/O. My wife, who is much younger than I, has a slide rule, though, and I've got a book on how to use them. We got them for Y2K, mostly as a joke. She took hers to school one day, in addition to her TI-83+ Silver edition...
I intended to put them in a glass case with an "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY..." sign on them, but she wouldn't let me. ;)
We got ours off EBay, they are probably still available there, if nowhere else.
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05/12/2006 6:16:17 PM PDT
by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
To: bannie
"Won't they please bring it to Bakersfield???"
I heard that Oildale, Arvin or Cottentown had priority.Of course Pumpkin Center is also holding out for a better offer!
To: fuzzthatwuz
I was really hoping for McFarland--if not there, then Weedpatch.
;-p
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posted on
05/12/2006 6:55:13 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: bannie
As Martha S. would say, "Weedpatch is a good thing!
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