From:	Edward Poe <hedley@********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Nostalgia and computers
Date:	Tue, 3 Dec 1996 09:36:53 -0600

SD Simmons 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...

I bought my first computer in 1983. It was an Atari 800. I upgraded
the ram to 160K and wrote a custom OS with OSS's MAC/65 macro
assembler. I burned that puppy into ROM and loved it. Never had to
wait for disk boot again to use my dual floppies. It even used part of
that 160K of RAM for a 90K ram-disk. All running instantly out of ROM.
I don't suppose that qualifies at Response Increase Level 1 does it?