On Mar 3, 3:26*pm, HK wrote:
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
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Harry, because of the many, many lies you've told here, no one is
going to believe that tale.