From:	Stephen Delear <shadow@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: Nostalgia and computers
Date:	Tue, 3 Dec 1996 19:55:07 -0600

On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Czar Eggbert wrote:

> <snip>
> > Oh the memories... I learned on a Trash 80 when my dad worked for
> > Radio Shack, then we had a Vic 20, then a Commodore 64, then a Timex
> > that hooked into the TV (anybody remember them? With the big RAM blocks
> > that plugged in back...
> >
> <grins>
> That was the timex synclare...I loved that thing! I still have it
> somewerher at home... makes a good bot brain...hooked it up to a little
> bot i made in eigth grade with some specks i found in a how to book.
> Fraggen beutiful! it drew circles and all sorts of cool sthuff...with a
> kinda logo program...
> <sigh>
>
> Czar (needs a life) Eggbert
>

When I was in 7th grade the school used a old version of (whatever the
program replaced by adobe illustator was) to do about the same thing
(drawing cicles and such). I still can't figure out what the point was
(I guess it was cheaper then letting the students play with pagemaker).
Oh as long as we're talking about old equipment I don't suppose anyone
out there has a speedgraphic (it's a camera).

SteveD
photographer who can remember playing around with a disk camera in first
grade