Laptop (cell phone) in my pocket?

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

>> Back in my day you got monochrome and 40x25 characters and counted
>> yourself lucky!
Did it..
Remember when I (AWE...) saw the firs CGA and flew M$ Flight Simulator IN 
COLORS!!!
All 8 of them!   8) 

>> At least I'm not old enough to have suffered with punch cards
Did it too... 

>> Before that it was fuzzy white on black with a dumb terminal and a 300
>> baud acoustic coupler. 
>> 
>> Before that it was on a dot matrix printer with a keyboard.  Get it
>> right quick or you waste a lot of paper!
Man, you *ARE* older than dirt!   ;-)
Your baby...
ET 

 

 

Alan Dayley writes: 

> You little youngsters don't know the meaning of hardship. 
> 
> Back in my day you got monochrome and 40x25 characters and counted
> yourself lucky! 
> 
> Before that it was fuzzy white on black with a dumb terminal and a 300
> baud acoustic coupler. 
> 
> Before that it was on a dot matrix printer with a keyboard.  Get it
> right quick or you waste a lot of paper! 
> 
> At least I'm not old enough to have suffered with punch cards or paper
> tape or front panel toggle switches. 
> 
> CGA was a wonder for about $600! 
> 
> ;^) 
> 
> Alan 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Stephen<cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> no i was just 5 when i started 
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM,
>> kitepilot at kitepilot.com<kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>>>> I remember CGA and its pink cyan vomit... i think i preferred going
>>> Jesus!
>>> You are *THAT* old?
>>> Dirt...  ;-)
>>> ET 
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> Stephen writes: 
>>>
>>>> I remember CGA and its pink cyan vomit... i think i preferred going
>>>> back to ASCII until VGA was out.
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