[THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program

Reminds me of the time we an old telephone circuit board, removed the memory
chips and soldered them onto a 256k Ram Disk thus doubling it's capacity to
512k.   Imagine a Commodore 64/128 with a 1/2 meg ram drive.  That was
sweet.

Joe

On 6/22/06, Nick Smith <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

Oh dear, I feel a Yorkshire man sketch coming on.

However, scariest upgrade of my life was upgrading my Mum's Amstrad PC
from 512kb to 640kb. The upgrade came on, I think 16 pieces of silicon,
which had 8 legs each. Break one of the legs and you had to junk the
lot. Bending back one of the legs I bent was truly scary.

And the reason for the upgrade was that I had pestered my mother because
Bard's Tale (Maybe 2?) needed 640kb to run. God only knows how much it
cost.

Aye, young people with their DIMMS...

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Sirmons [mailto:ksirmons@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 22 June 2006 16:01
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program

Ok, so I'm not as much of a computer historian as some of you, but my
first computer was an old 486 Packard Bell we bought from Sams Club.

I remember typing in dir at the dos prompt and commenting on how fast it
listed.  Then you push the turbo button and it lists even faster...
way cool

I talked my mother into buying more ram.  $200 for a 4MB 36 pin SIMM.
I'm glad Moore's Law is still in effect.

Keith


Keith Sirmons

College of Veterinary Medicine


>>> joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx 6/22/2006 9:34:38 AM >>>
Same here...  Then I moved on to the Commodore 128 a few years later...
I
can still hear my parents yelling for me to get off the phone.   They
didn't
understand that you can only move so much data at 1200 baud.

Joe

On 6/22/06, Turman, David C. <david_turman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>         I had a TI 99-4A. My first computer. With a cassette drive!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
> Behalf Of steve.quinnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:49 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
>
>
> TI99-4A in the early 80's - I think they sold about 4 of them in the
UK!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
> Behalf Of Bruce Jarrett-Norton
> Sent: 22 June 2006 14:35
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
>
> Compaq Portable with 1 5 1/4"  floppy drive. 81/82 for me also
>
> Bruce Jarrett-Norton
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
> Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:26 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
>
>
> Sinclair ZX81 for me, in, um 1981 ;-)
>
> Neil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Shrewsbury
> > Sent: 22 June 2006 13:58
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
> >
> > Atari 130XE, however it was the 90s...
> >
> > Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+ Network
> > Manager -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip Walley
> > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:56 AM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
> >
> > Awesome. Thanks for making me feel a whole lot younger today.
> > I didn't'
> > get my first computer until 87 (i think, it may have been 88) and
it
> > was
> >
> > a commodore 64c. I remember they had an online community that I
was
> > always messing around in.
> >
> > Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com wrote:
> > >
> > >     Lol... I got you by 10 years...now I really DO feel OLD!
> > >     I was working at NASA helping to launch rockets in 86. DId
you
> > >     guys know I started some of the original newsgroups on
usenet?
> > >     That was when there was no internet only Darpanet.
> > >     Yeah they should just give it to a bunch of us and
> > grandfather us
> > >     in. I'll call Bill. ; )
> > >     Jim
> > >     *From:* Douglas A. Brown
> > >     *Sent:* Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:34 PM
> > >     *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >     *Subject:* RE: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect
> > Program
> > >     Hey man, I'm old... I'm 35 almost 36 now.... Been doing
Citrix
> > since
> > >     96.. so 10 years on that... been writing code as a job since
86
> > and
> > >     started with a TRS-80 Model 1 in '77.....
> > >     So, I'm not that much of a kid anymore.. wish I was... J
> > >     *Douglas A. Brown*
> > >     /President and Chief Technology Officer /
> > >     Microsoft MVP, Windows Server
>
>
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