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Offline Boroda

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« on: November 09, 2007, 09:31:26 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2007, 09:34:26 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2007, 10:12:50 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2007, 10:17:22 PM »
The post above was aimed at people born at least before 1980.

I'll appreciate anyone younger then that giving some kind of a hint ;)

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« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2007, 12:07:46 AM »
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The post above was aimed at people born at least before 1980.

I'll appreciate anyone younger then that giving some kind of a hint ;)


Yeah.  First I was shocked.  I was shocked that there's something older than DOS.

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« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2007, 12:09:59 AM »
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« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2007, 12:34:19 AM »
TRS-80 was the shiz.
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« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2007, 06:37:15 PM »
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2007, 07:01:12 PM »
Atari 400 here... you could download your data onto a cassette deck... 4k of RAM memory.........30k after the $150 upgrade.

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« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2007, 07:16:30 PM »
I waited for the REALLY hi-tech stuff to come out ~ commodore 64. It was awesome.:rofl
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« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2007, 07:36:51 PM »
Remember the IBM PC Jr. ?

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« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2007, 07:39:18 PM »
My best friend in high school designed and built a computer back in the early 80’s; he even drew and acid etched his own circuit board for it.  It loaded data from regular cassette players.  It took hours to load anything, but the damn thing worked.