[Cialug] computers in unusual conditions

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I've got a box of them here...

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 18:43, Dan Hockey AAS/ASE wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Champion" <dave@visionary.com>
> To: <cialug@cialug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 4:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] computers in unusual conditions
> 
> 
> > Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> But would you trade it for the lower prices, faster speeds and better
> >> availability we have today?  Remember when you couldn't buy blank CDs in
> >> Walgreens or Target in a pinch?
> > 
> > <old man mode>
> > Remember when there was no such thing as CD's? I had a 160k single sided 
> >  single density 5.25" 1541 diskette drive on my Commodore 64 that 
> > communicated over a serial bus to the computer at 1200bps. And that's 
> > the way we liked it. Fiddle dee floo. It was SO much faster than the 
> > Datasette it replaced. :p
> > </old man mode>
> 
> better yet, how 'bout the the 8" floppies the xeox 820 used.
> -dh
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