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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 03:31 PM
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Blast from the past: The Computer
http://davidguy.brinkster.net/computer/

Classic!
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 03:37 PM
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1. COOL!
Check this out!
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 03:38 PM
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2. awwww yeah!
n/t
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okieinpain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 03:41 PM
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4. OH....MY.......GOD....... what the hell did they do with all of that money
It's amazing that computers ever got off the ground.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 03:57 PM
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5. ..And they couldn't even give you the stinking Mouse?
..Geez...
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 04:37 PM
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6. I betcha this baby cost twice that!
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 04:51 PM
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7. LOL, "lightning-fast 20 MHz"!
Man, how did anyone afford one of those suckers?? My first PC was a used IBM XT that somebody gave us around 1990 or so. No hard drive at all, just floppy. Still have it wrapped up in plastic in the basement.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 03:39 PM
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3. And it's still pretty accurate
Styles may change, but the fundamentals stay the same.

I have several comp-sci books from the late 1970s and early 1980s. They all cite examples from the AppleII, the Commodore Pet, and CP/M computers. And all of them can be used today as basic computer science texts -- and the pictures, of course, inspire irony in the hipster segment of the learning population. :)

--p!
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