[TheForge] Re: [Digrssion from] Excessive scaling?

[Mike]

Frosty> ...back in the 80's.  And you had a Commodore 64 ... lucky
Frosty> you!  I had the TI-99 ... 16K RAM and no floppy disk drive
Frosty> (had to use a cassette recorder to save data).

Chris> I still have my Sinclair that came as a kit. Used a radio shack
Chris> casette and hooked it all up to a 5" b&w tv.  The Sinclair is
Chris> in a sandwich bag now........next to my wax tablets and stylus.

And at one point, affter they had become obsolete, I had 7 working
Osborne I's on one of which Peggy wrote her master's thesis.  Finally
took 9 Osbornes, a couple of Kaypros and various peripherals -- a
Cavalier 2-door stuffed tightly full -- to a computer museum last
year.

Maybe all we'uns blacksmiths should visit Slash/dot and vote in their
"survey". They're running as their silly survey topic:  What do you
usually write with? Pen, pencil, marker... and "hammer and chisel" is
one of the options. :-)

- Mike

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