[THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program

  • From: "Douglas A. Brown" <dbrown@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:38:05 -0400

Remember the Charlie Chaplin camericals?  How about COMPUTE! Magazine?
I recently bought like 20 copies of COMPUTE! Magazine off eBay... 

:) 



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-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of George Yobst
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:37 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program

And 8" floppies, 1/2" reel tape. tty consoles, Core memory, disk packs,
dumb terminals, Ahhh, the memories.
I remember when the first IBM 8086 PC came out, there was confusion over
getting a CGA display card.  Was that about 1980?
-George

On 6/22/06, David Demers <David.Demers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Who remembers installing their first 10 meg full height drive and 
> saying to everyone who would listen "There is no way I'll EVER fill
that up"?
>
> -David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Matthew Shrewsbury
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:57 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
>
> My Atari had dual 5.25 floppies and it rocked! Also had a 800XE which 
> I used as a backup for my 130XE...Atari had such good music.
>
> Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+ Network 
> Manager
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Landin, Mark
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 3:44 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
>
> The lucky ones had floppies. We had cassette. After an upgrade, we had

> two cassette ports, and 64K RAM. WOOT!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DMelczer@xxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:41 PM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
> >
> > All this nostalgia talk makes me hearken back to my old Apple ][e 
> > days...
> >
> > Hard drive?  What's a hard drive!?!  We wrote everything to 5.25"
> > floppies!
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