On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:46:58 -0500 > Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:41 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On 01/29/2012 02:41 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> > >> >> an MFM controller >> > >> > Michael, I think you must be older than you look :p >> >> 28. Just got started earlier than most. Also "studied" history. :) >> > > So if you saw them when they were still new and shiny that means at the > time you must have been > > 2 years old! > > Child prodigy?
I didn't see anything new and shiny until I had the money to buy it myself...Though we did get a Tandy RLX1000 when I was five or six. When I was (I think) 12, I spent my $200 in savings to buy most of a second-hand K6-200 when the original owner was upgrading to (I think) a Celeron 300. -- :wq