"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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I remember almost buying an Osborne... finally bought one of the first
Compaqs... the luggable.


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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

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



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.

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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.

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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!