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This computer worked just fine thanks.
I know I can't legally say outright that Bill Gates has caused me so much excruciating grief over the past few days -what with these "innovations, enhancements and improvements"- swift and lethal payback is in order.
But we just bought this computer ten years ago. It was $350! And frankly, that thing was nothing more than grief.
Bill Gates has completely ruined the internet; this supposedly "modern" one doesn't doesn't even have a 5 1/2" disk drive or a 56k modem!
I know I can't legally say outright that Bill Gates has caused me so much excruciating grief over the past few days swift and lethal payback is in order, so screw it. I won't.
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My family spend 3k on an original Radio Shack TRS-80, back in the day.
I called it Deep Thought, and taped the number 42 to both sides.
And there it sat in the den/kitchen/dining room/mudroom/we need a bigger fucking house/shouldnt have blowing it on the Trash-80 in all it's glory, until I learned to program "Artillery" on it, and then wrote my paper on Lincon for History class.
And...that was about it. For 3k.
SA
The computer in that photo is a picture of my first computer. Two single-sided 5 1/4" (not 5 1/2) floppy drives -- no hard drive, of course -- came with 128K of RAM, which we later upgraded to 256k (hubba hubba). 56k modem? You must be joking! Not in 1983 when we bought this puppy for about $3,000 (including a letter quality daisy-wheel printer). First modem we had was an acoustic coupler -- had a cradle for the (wired) telephone receiver -- and data raged across the wires at 300 baud.
Wa-a-ay pre internet, of course, but at the time we thought we were pretty high-steppin' folks with this machine.
I know -- this is the geek version of stories about having to walk several miles to school in the snow, etc. etc. etc. Can't help it: I'm old! :-D
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