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Jere Lull wrote in news:2008092614594875249-
jerelull@maccom: I remember it and all the rest mentioned. The first time I saw a Kaypro, I was in lust: A computer that you could carry as a self-contained unit! I drove all the way to Jacksonville, FL to buy the new 8088 Compaq Portable for $2,495....twin floppies, 9" screen. The keyboard became the bottom when you carried it. It looked like a sewing machine...and weighed about the same. AC power ONLY....88 watt switching power supply you could overload by simply plugging something new into it. The expansion boards overloaded it. DOS 3.3 and the GREEN monochrome monitor completed the package.... I spent the weekend in the closest motel to Sears' computer center plugging in floppy disks with programs and stuff to play with from home. We hardly slept.......(c; We'd probably have starved if there hadn't been two restaurants next door to the motel. At the next Computer Club meeting, it was the center of attention. Pong never looked better....(c; |
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"Capt. JG" wrote in news:MMadnVnnvp4-
reasolutions: I remember almost buying an Osborne... finally bought one of the first Compaqs... the luggable. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com Is your right arm 1.5" longer than your left like mine?....(c; Everyone thought it was a bowling phenomenon. But, it only happened to us Portable and Portable 286 owners.... |
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Gogarty wrote in news:20080926-202820.842.0
@Gogarty.news.bway.net: Did we all walk five miles to school in the snow uphill both ways? Nope. I drove the bus! Slid down a long hill at a 45 degree angle off into the right ditch on glare ice when I was a senior, my last year in high school. Not a single kid even had a bump and I got a commendation for saving them. The school was covering its ass. It should have been CLOSED for a snow day that day and we no sooner got there, a bit late, when they sent everyone home with more snow on the way. |
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"Larry" wrote in message
... "Capt. JG" wrote in easolutions: I worked for Bill Godbout at CompuPro back when.... Wow....That must have been an amazing time. He wasn't a bad guy... very driven to prove his technology, but it was obvious to me at the time that it wasn't going to go anywhere... but I needed the work. :-) Some of the people at the company were truly strange. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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"Larry" wrote in message
... "Capt. JG" wrote in news:MMadnVnnvp4- reasolutions: I remember almost buying an Osborne... finally bought one of the first Compaqs... the luggable. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com Is your right arm 1.5" longer than your left like mine?....(c; Everyone thought it was a bowling phenomenon. But, it only happened to us Portable and Portable 286 owners.... Yeah, but my golf game improved significantly. LOL My first actual computer that I owned (I shared the Compaq with someone else) was a Televideo (no harddisk, two 8" floppy drive). I got it in trade for some work I was doing for a modem protocol company, where I could actually talk on the same line as the modem tones for 30 seconds or so until the modem dropped. Finally, I got sick of swapping floppies, went to a computer show and bought a 17 meg HD for $450 (on sale). I had to put it in an external box, and the cable was about 2 inches too long, which meant I got a lot of crashes. I suppose I should have kept mine, as it seems to have held it's value: http://cgi.ebay.com/TeleVideo-TS-803...17103002r20375 -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
easolutions... "Larry" wrote in message ... "Capt. JG" wrote in news:MMadnVnnvp4- reasolutions: I remember almost buying an Osborne... finally bought one of the first Compaqs... the luggable. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com Is your right arm 1.5" longer than your left like mine?....(c; Everyone thought it was a bowling phenomenon. But, it only happened to us Portable and Portable 286 owners.... Yeah, but my golf game improved significantly. LOL My first actual computer that I owned (I shared the Compaq with someone else) was a Televideo (no harddisk, two 8" floppy drive). I got it in trade for some work I was doing for a modem protocol company, where I could actually talk on the same line as the modem tones for 30 seconds or so until the modem dropped. Finally, I got sick of swapping floppies, went to a computer show and bought a 17 meg HD for $450 (on sale). I had to put it in an external box, and the cable was about 2 inches too long, which meant I got a lot of crashes. I suppose I should have kept mine, as it seems to have held it's value: http://cgi.ebay.com/TeleVideo-TS-803...17103002r20375 Actually, this one is slightly newer than the one I had. Mine only had two floppy drives. More like this one. I maxed out the memory to 128K! Except for the crashes, I loved that machine. http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/...sp?st=1&c=1077 -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
news "Capt. JG" wrote in message easolutions... "Larry" wrote in message ... "Capt. JG" wrote in news:MMadnVnnvp4- reasolutions: I remember almost buying an Osborne... finally bought one of the first Compaqs... the luggable. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com Is your right arm 1.5" longer than your left like mine?....(c; Everyone thought it was a bowling phenomenon. But, it only happened to us Portable and Portable 286 owners.... Yeah, but my golf game improved significantly. LOL My first actual computer that I owned (I shared the Compaq with someone else) was a Televideo (no harddisk, two 8" floppy drive). I got it in trade for some work I was doing for a modem protocol company, where I could actually talk on the same line as the modem tones for 30 seconds or so until the modem dropped. Finally, I got sick of swapping floppies, went to a computer show and bought a 17 meg HD for $450 (on sale). I had to put it in an external box, and the cable was about 2 inches too long, which meant I got a lot of crashes. I suppose I should have kept mine, as it seems to have held it's value: http://cgi.ebay.com/TeleVideo-TS-803...17103002r20375 Actually, this one is slightly newer than the one I had. Mine only had two floppy drives. More like this one. I maxed out the memory to 128K! Except for the crashes, I loved that machine. http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/...sp?st=1&c=1077 Ok, I must be getting old... I had the TS-1603, with the 8088. I recall that I added an 8087 to it. Damn thing got so hot that it did the big melt down eventually. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
easolutions: Some of the people at the company were truly strange. That could be said for every computer company....(c; Hell, look at Google! Who would have thought a bunch of kids playing in the sandbox would be filthy rich? |
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
easolutions: Ok, I must be getting old... I had the TS-1603, with the 8088. I recall that I added an 8087 to it. Damn thing got so hot that it did the big melt down eventually. -- "j" ganz @@ w Aha! The Math Coprocessor! Going first class so 2+2=4 not 3.999999999992398237049865098712398740129386532847 It would even take a proper square root....er, ah, if it wasn't overheated already. http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Liqui...uter_20Cooling Damned overclockers! |
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