Subj : Re: TS 1000
To   : Gaylen Hintz
From : Charles Stephenson
Date : Tue May 28 2019 20:33:21

On May 28th 5:21 pm Gaylen Hintz said...
 GH> Computer/Desktop I actually BOUGHT was a Tandy 1000 SL, I was in High
 GH> 
 GH>  Hmmm, started out with a mighty MC10 from Radio Shak, worked my way up 
 GH> to a  Color computer 1 and then finally 3.  Ran a unix clone OS on that 
 GH> and even had  a dialup board on that one.  Great fun those days... multi 
 GH> user multi tasking  environment on an 8 bit machine. :)
 GH>

MC10?? My old age is setting in! :( I can't remember what those were...


On May 28th 5:21 pm Gaylen Hintz said...
 GH> the first time I saw Windows in action!
 GH> 
 GH>  heheheh, was pretty amazing way back in the day when you didn't have to 
 GH> use  the command prompt for everything.
 GH>


Right! I did like using the command prompt, made computing a little more 
personal! When I saw Linux for the first time, it made it easier to migrate to 
it YEARS ago, just because of the command prompt! Before that I fell in love 
with OS/2!


On May 28th 5:21 pm Gaylen Hintz said...
 GH>  doing  no plug and play with those puters. :)
 GH>


Yeah, and when 'plug n play' did come around, it was a *ITCH in OS/2! :\


On May 28th 5:21 pm Gaylen Hintz said...
 GH> 
 GH>  No argument there.. did your own programming too?
 GH>


I dilly dallied in BASIC/QB, when I got into BBSing, I got into seeing how big 
and smart I could make my batch file! hehe....  

The good ole days!



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