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    From StarDust@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 22 20:18:13 2022
    The Hard Disk You’ve Been Waiting For. $3398 for 10MB. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-01.webp

    ExtenSys 64K for $1495. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-15.webp

    https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-27.webp

    My first computer was the TI-99A, bought it on the flea market for $90, used, in the late 80s?
    Came with programs in cartridges, but had many programs on magnetic tapes and had to loaded in with a cassette player.
    It even talked too.
    Those were the good old days!
    😎 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-37.webp

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From StarDust@21:1/5 to StarDust on Mon Aug 22 20:21:05 2022
    On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 8:18:15 PM UTC-7, StarDust wrote:
    The Hard Disk You’ve Been Waiting For. $3398 for 10MB. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-01.webp

    ExtenSys 64K for $1495. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-15.webp

    https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-27.webp

    My first computer was the TI-99A, bought it on the flea market for $90, used, in the late 80s?
    Came with programs in cartridges, but had many programs on magnetic tapes and had to loaded in with a cassette player.
    It even talked too.
    Those were the good old days!
    😎 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-37.webp

    wiring an early IBM computer, 1958. https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359594804465/2203811696459235/

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to StarDust on Mon Aug 22 21:18:38 2022
    On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 9:18:15 PM UTC-6, StarDust wrote:

    Those were the good old days!

    Ah, but that wasn't *why* they were the good old days.

    Computers costing much more money than they do now was bad.

    But because they cost so much, they came with better-quality keyboards!
    That was good.

    John Savard

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Chris L Peterson@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Aug 23 19:14:14 2022
    On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:18:38 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 9:18:15 PM UTC-6, StarDust wrote:

    Those were the good old days!

    Ah, but that wasn't *why* they were the good old days.

    Computers costing much more money than they do now was bad.

    But because they cost so much, they came with better-quality keyboards!
    That was good.

    John Savard

    Happily you can still buy really nice mechanical keyboards that feel
    like they did in those good old days (despite being lower profile
    overall and therefore healthier). But you're right... those are not
    the keyboards that typically come with new computers.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From StarDust@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Tue Aug 23 17:27:58 2022
    On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 9:18:40 PM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:
    On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 9:18:15 PM UTC-6, StarDust wrote:

    Those were the good old days!
    Ah, but that wasn't *why* they were the good old days.

    Computers costing much more money than they do now was bad.

    But because they cost so much, they came with better-quality keyboards!
    That was good.

    John Savard

    Ja!
    But the keyboards had no PrtSc button!
    Bruhaha!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From StarDust@21:1/5 to Chris L Peterson on Tue Aug 23 21:08:34 2022
    On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 6:14:18 PM UTC-7, Chris L Peterson wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:18:38 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 9:18:15 PM UTC-6, StarDust wrote:

    Those were the good old days!

    Ah, but that wasn't *why* they were the good old days.

    Computers costing much more money than they do now was bad.

    But because they cost so much, they came with better-quality keyboards! >That was good.

    John Savard
    Happily you can still buy really nice mechanical keyboards that feel
    like they did in those good old days (despite being lower profile
    overall and therefore healthier). But you're right... those are not
    the keyboards that typically come with new computers.

    I had few ThinkPads, very nice quality computers, keyboards are fantastic!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From RichA@21:1/5 to StarDust on Tue Aug 23 21:17:37 2022
    On Monday, 22 August 2022 at 23:18:15 UTC-4, StarDust wrote:
    The Hard Disk You’ve Been Waiting For. $3398 for 10MB. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-01.webp

    ExtenSys 64K for $1495. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-15.webp

    https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-27.webp

    My first computer was the TI-99A, bought it on the flea market for $90, used, in the late 80s?
    Came with programs in cartridges, but had many programs on magnetic tapes and had to loaded in with a cassette player.
    It even talked too.
    Those were the good old days!
    😎 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vintage-computer-ads-37.webp

    I once sold Toshiba their own memory at $100/meg.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From =?iso-8859-1?Q?fred__k._engels=AE?=@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 25 05:28:00 2022
    This KidOrion person is known to be a cheap-ass prick cocksucker shithead�
    who jerks off uncontrollably over pretty picture astro photography
    horseshit� imaging from his observatory!!!!!!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
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