On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2012 7:19 AM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal > all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a front-panel (7-segment > LED) display between "4.77" and "8.00" > > And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25")... > > And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite... > > As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood...
PC, XT or AT? Fastest system I ever used what dropped down to 4.77MHz was a 33MHz 386.. -- :wq
