[ubuntu-uk] memory lane, was: Please can someone look at this and try to help

[Ian Pascoe]

Well I cut my teeth on a Model B and the first major enhancement I did to it
was .... to add a 5.25" floppy drive.  The speed at which it retrieved data
was astounding!

However, I was definately not allowed to "play" with my parent's Amstrad
wordprocessor .... so I got me InterWord for my Beeb - that showed them!

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[mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Jim Kissel
Sent: 12 November 2007 17:14
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] memory lane, was: Please can someone look at
this and try to help




Sean Miller wrote:
>> You're all really old, I cant remember before my familys 486 with DOS
>> 6.22 and win 3.11 for workgroups  (I was born in 1992!!) lol  I know
>> my Mum had a computer before that, but I cant remember it - I found
>> its dot matrix printer in the loft a while ago though.
>
>
> My daughter was born in 1994... now I feel old... :-(

My grand-daughter was 6 in 1994...now I feel very old...;-(

The ViewCom III was the greatest terminal ever built, though the ADM 3
at $1,000 USD undercut it's market and killed it.

Will someone pass me a forms ruler?

>
> That said, no programmer should have been denied the privilege to program
> for 80x22 vt220 green screens... amazing how much wasted space there is
> these days... we used every single inch of those screens...
>
> Sean
>
>

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