Subj : TOSS error report
To : Alan Ianson
From : Jeff Smith
Date : Mon Mar 13 2006 08:29 pm
Hello Alan.
12 Mar 06 13:47, you wrote to Andrew Leary:
AI> Andrew Leary wrote to Mark Lewis:
AL>> That was back when programmers took the time to conserve
AL>> resources, because at the time RAM and disk space were EXTREMELY
AL>> expensive.
AI> Wasn't it though! Funny how things have changed, and that wasn't
AI> really that long ago.
AL>> My first computer (an original Tandy Color Computer) came with a
AL>> whole 32K of RAM, and used a cassette recorder to save/load
AL>> programs. I remember how exiting it was when they finally came out
AL>> with a floppy disk drive for it.
AI> My first computer was given to me with a morse code program so I
AI> could learn the code and get my amateur HF license, an 8086 with
AI> 512K, two 5 1/4 inch floppy drives and a 2400 baud modem. I did get
AI> my HF license too although I never used it much, but I've been
AI> modeming ever since.. :)
My first computer was a 8088 running at 4.77Mhz and had two 360K
floppy drives. One of the first upgrades was to install a 20M MFM HD to
put the BBS on and upgrade the 300b modem. It wasn't until a few computers
later that I installed morse code software to help get my HAM ticket.
AI> Ttyl :-),
AI> Al
AI> ... * GROWING OLD is Mandatory: GROWING UP is Optional *
