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HK

wrote:
On Mar 3, 3:13 pm, HK wrote:
Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:17:55 -0800 (PST), "jim.isbell"
wrote:
On Mar 2, 9:38 am, "Bill Kearney" wrote:
I have been on the internet since the days when it was black and
white, text only.
Gee, then you're a newbie. Most early screens weren't black and white
(plasma, amber, green, etc)
Not so. Most were Black and White CRT. If you had lots of money
maybe you had green or amber. I had amber..
I went with the first IBM PC, the 8088, 64k mem, single floppy deal.
Tricked it all out a bit later, so it was a hot rod. Heh.
Think I paid 2700 bucks for the barebones.
The IBM monitor was the green.
Clones were coming with amber monitors, and to my eyes they were
"tacky." Never told anybody that until now.
--Vic
You got screwed, too, eh? Did you add a second floppy drive at the cost
of, what was it, about $350? I sold that machine off and got an Eagle
8086 based "rocket" with a graphics card and an amber monitor that would
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I remember my computer geek (back then Clayton Walnum wrote manuals
for Que and other companies) he was by no means an amateur. I think
the quote he gave me was something like "who the heck is going to fill
up 20 mb anyway"

I lucked out with some computer mag writing contracts after getting the
Eagle, and always had "demos" around. One of my favorites was an S-100
bus machine that drove me batty, especially since Jerry Pournelle over
at BYTE magazine had all kinds of guys stopping by to fix his up. I
finally got it running right. It was a well-built tank.