Re: Finally got the scan tool data...

From: Barry Oliver (barrysuperhawk@insightbb.com)
Date: Sat Sep 08 2007 - 22:45:59 EDT


TRS80 with a mighty cassette adapter!!!

Bernd D. Ratsch wrote:
> 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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