RE: Finally got the scan tool data...

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (bernd@dodgetrucks.org)
Date: Sat Sep 08 2007 - 07:30:09 EDT


@#$! brainfart - not 2600 (that's the game console), Atari 800.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernd D. Ratsch [mailto:bernd@dodgetrucks.org]
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 6:24 AM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: RE: DML: Finally got the scan tool data...

Ok, but do you remember installing 64K and 256K chips for memory expansion?
Hehehe...Wrote my first program on an Atari 2600 with a 32K memory upgrade
cartridge and had built my first computer in Jr. Highschool - Timex Sinclair
1000.

- Bernd
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Hedlin [mailto:superdak@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 1:01 AM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: Finally got the scan tool data...

jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:

> Yeah, that's pretty annoying. In a similar vein, this probably
> doesn't happen anymore now that diskettes have pretty much gone the
> way of the Dodo bird, the 5.25" was a "floppy disk" and a 3.5" was a
> "hard disk". That one used to bug me, but I never really hear it
> anymore; probably because nobody remembers the 5.25" disks.
>

Man, I can't forget those 5.25" disks... Had a summer job at the high
school I attended working for the computer department and had to format
about 10,000 disks as one of my tasks. They put the WRONG guy on that
job! Took me about 3 weeks, and went through 3 floppy drives... Apple
IIe drives that ran about $200 a pop at the time (early 90's) For what
they paid for the drives, and me at $4.25 an hour, they could have
bought new blank disks. But hey, I wasn't complaining... got to see the
Rollins Band that summer! :)

Gary Hedlin
98 Dakota Sport 3.9



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