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Re: Geek Reminiscing

To: Robbie Honerkamp <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Geek Reminiscing
From: [email protected]
Date: 16 Oct 1998 17:36:31 -0400
Cc: [email protected]
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In-reply-to: Robbie Honerkamp's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:23:48 -0400"
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Robbie Honerkamp <[email protected]> writes:


> On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:37:22PM -0400, Baron Chandler wrote:

> > Hehe. The TI99/4a was THE computer. Talk about something ahead of its time.
> 
> I had a TRS-80. Not by choice mind you- I asked for an Atari computer. But
> my dad heard that Atari was about to go out of business or something so
> I got a TRS80 CoCo with a whopping 16k of RAM (I remember thinking "Wow-


Funny. Wasn't it called the Trash-80 by everyone except Radio Shack
Employees?

-- 
William Young|[email protected]|MindSpring Web Engineer|C-u N UNIX!
There is ageneral social trend in English-speaking countries (and most
likely elsewhere) to treat technically-educated people as the social
inferiors of non-technically educated people. This is a terrible ill
affecting our society --Bruce Perens

References:
- Re: Geek Reminiscing
  - From: Baron Chandler <[email protected]>
- Re: Geek Reminiscing
  - From: Robbie Honerkamp <[email protected]>

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