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Message no. 1
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Nostalgia and computers
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 16:40:02 -0500
At 04:35 AM 12/3/96 -0500, you wrote:

>>>Hmmm, I also had a Tandy thingy... It was this keyboard and Tape player
>>>that you attached to your TV and could program in Basic... and that was
>>it...
>>
>>Radio Shack TRS-80? My first computer..how I loved that thing. Zaxxon and
>>baseball and learning basic at 7 or 8. Well, just copying it out of the
>>book actually.
>>
>>Fro-the-nostalgic-at-16-assistant-fearless-leader
>
> TRS-80's?! Now I do feel old. I went to school on those things.
>Not that I'd ever be nostalgic for one of those things. Those ugly green
>and black screens. Ugh. <g>

I took a class in BASIC as a senior in high school with those damn things.
I really hated how the tape recorder worked only about 1/2 the time.

--
"We haven't heard language like that since our 'Crips' Mother's Day Sepcial'!"
Dick Diedrieck, "Night Stand"
Message no. 2
From: flatline <flatline@***.COM>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Nostalgia and computers
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 16:51:43 -0600
Ubiquitous wrote:
>
> At 04:35 AM 12/3/96 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >>>Hmmm, I also had a Tandy thingy... It was this keyboard and Tape player
> >>>that you attached to your TV and could program in Basic... and that was
> >>it...
> >>
> >>Radio Shack TRS-80? My first computer..how I loved that thing. Zaxxon and
> >>baseball and learning basic at 7 or 8. Well, just copying it out of the
> >>book actually.
> >>
> >>Fro-the-nostalgic-at-16-assistant-fearless-leader
> >
> > TRS-80's?! Now I do feel old. I went to school on those things.
> >Not that I'd ever be nostalgic for one of those things. Those ugly green
> >and black screens. Ugh. <g>
>
> I took a class in BASIC as a senior in high school with those damn things.
> I really hated how the tape recorder worked only about 1/2 the time.
>
gee feel not so old then we at least had apple 2e's by the time i
started taking classes in school, granted my first pc i ever saw was a
commodore pet and my first one i owned was a vic 20

--
Remember never underestimate a elf street sam
and
a red dot on the body is not a natural occurance
......flatline---a dark elf sammie http://www.wwa.com/~flatline

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