On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:33:50 -0700, "Jonathan Ganz"
wrote this crap:

You have to touch it?? You have to say it? I would prefer to just
think it. :-)


With what?





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

Did you find a house yet? Berks Co.? Plowville area?


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"Scout" wrote in message
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That's exactly it Thom!
I'm stuck here, remodeling the house in order to sell it. I'm sick of
drywall and spackle, plumbing, installing new windows, staining, painting,
wiring, blah blah blah. I just want to have fun, but here I am.
Scout.

"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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Scout,

See how things change?

I think this damned heat has gotten to me?
It's like summer in Lower Bucks County.
Getting Housebound!!

Ole Thom

We're hoping for next May. We liked a lot of the Berks area, closer to where
my wife is working. Chester County looks good too, and western Montgomery
isn't out of the question. We just aren't sure, but we keep looking. The
prices are outrageous. In the meantime, I'm working on this place so I can
get top dollar. I own it and hate the thoughts of a new mortgage. My wife is
housestruck though, and wants a mansion. I want a simple place with land.
Scout


"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
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Did you find a house yet? Berks Co.? Plowville area?


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Plowville PA __/)__/)__


"Scout" wrote in message
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That's exactly it Thom!
I'm stuck here, remodeling the house in order to sell it. I'm sick of
drywall and spackle, plumbing, installing new windows, staining,
painting,
wiring, blah blah blah. I just want to have fun, but here I am.
Scout.

"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
...
Scout,

See how things change?

I think this damned heat has gotten to me?
It's like summer in Lower Bucks County.
Getting Housebound!!

Ole Thom

I know this is a problem for you. The rest of us have and use our brains.

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"Horvath" wrote in message
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On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:33:50 -0700, "Jonathan Ganz"
wrote this crap:

You have to touch it?? You have to say it? I would prefer to just
think it. :-)


With what?





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

They keep saying that.... sigh...

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"Michael" wrote in message
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Add a decade or so . . ..

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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You have to touch it?? You have to say it? I would prefer to just
think it. :-)

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"Michael" wrote in message
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First high capacity hard drive our store sold was to a programmer. His
business ponied up a bit over a $1,000 for it. How much capacity?
80MB.
That's it. Myfirst computer, the Kaypro had 64K RAM and two DSDD 360k
FD.
One more. Our store was the first in the state to sell laser printers
for
under $1,000 and our first full bed b&w scanner was purchased
wholesale
to
us for about the same amount. And the original Kaypro with daisy
wheel
for
the nice stuff and dot matrix wide carraige ran $2,000 for everything.
That
was in 1983, just 21 years ago. We had the first BB in our store on a
20mb
HD. Not much but it got folks started. Phone company wanted to
charge
us
an extra line and by the minute. But they were up for franchise
renewal,
had Sprint to compete with and I was on the city council. . . . . . .

Now my wris****ch has more computing power than that first Kaypro ....

What's next insight? A badge or somethingsimilar. You touch it and
say,
"Computer!"


"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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Yeh, I had similar. The first modem I bought was $450 and was good
up to 1200 baud. I thought it was a fantastic deal and quite cutting
edge at the time. (I had been using the expensive crap at work.) My
first HD was a whopping 17 megs. That also cost about $500. Nothing
but trouble. It was external since I couldn't fit in the box, but
the
cables
were a couple of inches too long and it was always flaking due to
signal degradation.

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"Michael" wrote in message
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Kaypro with 65K and 300 baud modem. Hard drive was separate and
as
big
as
a
shoebox.

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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Well that figures.

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"Horvath" wrote in message
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On 23 Jul 2004 12:23:06 -0500, Dave wrote
this
crap:

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:28:21 GMT, "Scout"

said:

My first connection was just 1200 bps (bulletin boards).

Ah, such a child. My first was at the then state of the art
speed
of
300.


The first time I connected to the internet with my OWN
computer,
was
a
Commodore VIC-20, at 300 baud.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:28:27 -0700, "Jonathan Ganz"
wrote this crap:

I know this is a problem for you. The rest of us have and use our brains.


But what do you use?





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

In article ,
Scout wrote:

We're hoping for next May. We liked a lot of the Berks area, closer to where
my wife is working. Chester County looks good too, and western Montgomery
isn't out of the question. We just aren't sure, but we keep looking. The
prices are outrageous. In the meantime, I'm working on this place so I can
get top dollar. I own it and hate the thoughts of a new mortgage. My wife is
housestruck though, and wants a mansion. I want a simple place with land.
Scout

Yes! Do it. My last place was a 6 BR 3 bath place, 54 squares over 3
storeys in suburbia. Built it myself, took years and was a PITA. Not a
lot went wrong after it was finished coz I knew who was gonna maintain
it but still - just the general maintenance........

My current place is a small 2 BR cottage on 3.5 acres that I've also
built meself. Nearly finished including the small attached machine shop
so I have somewhere to play on cold wet days.

Build as small as you can get away with. You can always extend in a few
years.

PDW

Scott Vernon wrote:
"Horvath" wrote

I remember not even having a computer and using an IBM Selectric to write
mail for the snail to deliver. at - .00015 baud....


Lucky *******. I couldn't afford such technology. I had to use
something called a pencil, or if I could afford it, I bought ink for
my quill.


Oh brother. I had to use a Mastodon bone on a cave wall. There, that should
end this thread.


Greasy hand marks on barn door?

Cheers

"Nav" wrote


Greasy hand marks on barn door?

Just at the latch.

"The rest of us...." which word don't you understand?

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"Horvath" wrote in message
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On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:28:27 -0700, "Jonathan Ganz"
wrote this crap:

I know this is a problem for you. The rest of us have and use our brains.


But what do you use?





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!