On Tue 7 July 2009 6:53:41 pm Alan Dayley wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:50 PM,
>
> kitepilot@kitepilot.com<kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
> > Did it..
> > Remember when I (AWE...) saw the firs CGA and flew M$ Flight Simulator IN
> > COLORS!!!
> > All 8 of them! 8)
>
> It was WAY COOL!
>
> >>> 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! ;-)
>
> Our high school had one of these beauties:
>
> http://www.omnidatasys.net/product/spec_printer_ti820.htm
>
> When the terminals acted up, we could use this to get on the district
> main frame. It was already old then, but not yet uncommon.
>
> Alan
Thank you for changing the subject line ;)
The funny thing about all of this, and talking to the retro hacker guy who
sits next to me at work, is that I know what all of you are talking about, and
I'm only 17. Not sure that's depressing or not xD
I guess that's what happens when you have the Jargon file and various
'history' books and lore saved to your desktop and your pda for idle reading
;)
Ryan
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