Windows Rant

[Douglas Pollard]

On 07/11/2010 05:33 PM, Michael Pavling wrote:
> On 11 July 2010 22:14, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 07/11/2010 02:29 PM, Michael Pavling wrote:
>>      
>>> On 11 July 2010 20:57, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>>       Heck Yes! In my storage is a computer I bought around 1960. It
>>>> arrived and had 2 3.5 inch floppies and it had 16 Meg of RAM.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> You must mean 1990....
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>          Nope 1960 about. By 1990 the Internet was Everywhere.
>>      
>
> *blinks*
>
> okay.... I'm going to bookmark this thread for anyone considering
> taking your advice in future.
>
> I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but what you just said about your
> "computer in storage" is wrong on *every* point; from hardware specs
> to software to price... (assuming you maintain that this is a machine
> that was in existence before 1990)
>
> If you *insist* that this is a machine you had in THE NINETEEN
> SIXTIES!!!! then I'm happy to call you a big fat liar for posterity to
> store for ever (and I don't take the risk of libelling someone
> lightly).
>
>    
I might well be wrong, but I don't think there was hardrives in the mid 
1970's. If there were I must have been  dumb as a stump as we used tape 
drives.  A good friend of mine was using a wire recorder to save to and 
they were popular in the early 1950's .   My first Windows computer was 
a lap top with Windows 3.1  and that was used and  was about 1989 and I 
think the 3.5 floppies were pretty new even that late.                  
                                             Doug