"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
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?

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;

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:59:42 +0000, Larry wrote:

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;

I had a 64 and the Vic-20 before that. Who would believe in this day
and age that we actually stored data and programs on audio cassette
tape at one time.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:59:42 +0000, Larry wrote:

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;

I had a 64 and the Vic-20 before that. Who would believe in this day
and age that we actually stored data and programs on audio cassette
tape at one time.

Audio tape is for wimps, I used to store them on punched paper tape,
ASR-33 teletype with integral tape reader and punch!

Cheers
Marty

Wayne.B wrote in
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:59:42 +0000, Larry wrote:

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;

I had a 64 and the Vic-20 before that. Who would believe in this day
and age that we actually stored data and programs on audio cassette
tape at one time.



I have Z80 software on paper tape for your teletype machine....(c;

it's in hexidecimal...all very modern.

"Larry" wrote in message
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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;



Oh, that's what it was... the 64.

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"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
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?




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

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com