Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/25

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Subject: [Leica] noctilux factoid of the day - computer history/nostalgia
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Fri Apr 25 20:16:39 2008
References: <48126C64.2060704@gmx.de> <20080426010020.PWMY24465.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>

If you owned a PC as your first computer user, you ain't old enough to be an
old Fart.

Old Farts used real manly computers.... things with attached air
conditioners....... and paper punched tape done on a Teletype
machine......or maybe toggle switches for the boot......

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net



 (Who bought the first IBM PC hard drive shipped into our town --- 10
megabytes, in a separate matching case with a separate power supply, for
$2,500 then-dollars.  If that doesn't qualify for more recent old-fart
status, I don't know what does.)  




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