"Capt. JG" wrote in
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Anyone remember the S100 bus? I worked with Concurrent CPM for a while.



Sure! Kept me poor buying parts to build them for years....(c;

My first was a Southwest Technical Products that had 8 toggle switches for
input and 8 light bulbs for output.....then, some smartass sold me a
TELETYPE interface!

REAL programmers use:

COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE

on DOS machines....(c;

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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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Anyone remember the S100 bus? I worked with Concurrent CPM for a while.



Sure! Kept me poor buying parts to build them for years....(c;

My first was a Southwest Technical Products that had 8 toggle switches for
input and 8 light bulbs for output.....then, some smartass sold me a
TELETYPE interface!

REAL programmers use:

COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE

on DOS machines....(c;



I worked for Bill Godbout at CompuPro back when....

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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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I worked for Bill Godbout at CompuPro back when....



Wow....That must have been an amazing time.

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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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.

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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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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?

Next u'll talk about the Pet Computer (Commodore 2000)....

Hanz


Larry wrote:
"Capt. JG" wrote in
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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?

Hanz Schmidt wrote in
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Next u'll talk about the Pet Computer (Commodore 2000)....



Oh, my....Pets cost more than Commode Door 64....

Whenever I call Knology about an outage, I ask them if they minded going
back into the garage and plugging the Commodore 64 back into the wall so we
can have internet in Charleston, again....(c;

"Hanz Schmidt" wrote in message
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Next u'll talk about the Pet Computer (Commodore 2000)....

Hanz


Larry wrote:
"Capt. JG" wrote in
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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?




I bought my father one of those when it came out. He didn't like it, so I
returned it.

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