Feeling real grumpy !

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Nov 16 19:52:52 UTC 2006


On Thursday 16 November 2006 14:37, George Arseneault wrote:
>--- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 06:14, Tim wrote:
>> >On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 14:38 -0500, Matthew Miller
>>
>> wrote:
>> >> In computer years, 5-6 years is almost always
>>
>> past end-of-life.
>>
>> >Shh, don't tell my (HP LaserJet 4L) printer that.
>>
>> It turns 14 next
>>
>> >month, and it's still going strong.  I've got older
>>
>> computers than that,
>>
>> >and they're still doing exactly what they supposed
>>
>> to.
>>
>> Chuckle, so have I, Tim.  A TI-99/4a, boxes of
>> coco's, an elderly atari
>> 1040-st, a full blown 64 meg of memory amiga
>> 2000-040.  I have got to
>> clean the basement sometime before I pass. :)
>
>How about...
>Radio Shack Model IV with a 128k ramdisk
>c64
>apple IIe
>atari ST
>and the modems to go with them (except the apple)
>
So we're about even in the packrat rateings.  But I've long since lost 
track of how many coco's I have.  I think they are like coat hangers. :)

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