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      04-13-2021, 04:54 PM   #2377
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My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair 1000. I bought at a drugstore in 1982. The BASIC programs were loaded from an audio cassette player. Average load times were about 6 minutes. I had a lot of fun with it, and I still have it.
Pretty well the same era as my first one... Commodore Vic 20. I also got a Sinclair Spectrum while docking in the UK.
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Pretty well the same era as my first one... Commodore Vic 20. I also got a Sinclair Spectrum while docking in the UK.
I had a cousin in on the ground floor of Commodore. I had no idea what it was when I was a kid. He'd bring in these "keyboards" with all the shit exposed and use tweezers pull the chips out and replace them and let us place like moon lander and shit. I was a dumbass little kid - I had no idea, I just thought he was cool.

We was worth a pretty penny for a while, but held it too long until it crashed. He was a true believer. Still did pretty well for himself, but could have cashed out during the peak.
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Pretty well the same era as my first one... Commodore Vic 20. I also got a Sinclair Spectrum while docking in the UK.
+1 for the VIC-20. It was my first, and I got the cassette recorder too. After the Commodore my uncle bought me an Apple IIe with 80-column card, a Hayes 300baud modem card, and dot matrix printer. I hosted a crappy text based BBS.
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.... I hosted a crappy text based BBS.
You know your old when you remember "Duane's Garage" BMW forum.
Trouble is, I don't remember the name of the earlier BMW BBS that Duane's Garage spun off from.

Anyone? It had Jim Conforti, the UUC guys before they started & were just hiding purchases from their wives....
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While we are on a roll with first computers ... Colorado School of Mines had a special deal with IBM for the first issued IBM dual floppy in 1985. I hung onto this dinosaur adding in hard drives, modems, graphic card and eventually had to retire it to keep up with ever improving software.
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You know your old when you remember "Duane's Garage" BMW forum.
Trouble is, I don't remember the name of the earlier BMW BBS that Duane's Garage spun off from.

Anyone? It had Jim Conforti, the UUC guys before they started & were just hiding purchases from their wives....
Remember Quantum Link or Q-Link?

You know what comes next. Get off my Lawn!!!!!
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You know your old when you remember "Duane's Garage" BMW forum.
Trouble is, I don't remember the name of the earlier BMW BBS that Duane's Garage spun off from.

Anyone? It had Jim Conforti, the UUC guys before they started & were just hiding purchases from their wives....
Remember Quantum Link or Q-Link?

You know what comes next. Get off my Lawn!!!!!
How about Compuserve? That really takes me back. That was my first online service. After that it was AOL, I think.
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How about Compuserve? That really takes me back. That was my first online service. After that it was AOL, I think.
Yeah. Q-Link, if I remember correctly, was a predecessor of AOL. Started on the east coast and migrated outwards from there. I remember getting a $150 service charge for all of the minutes I used when I was 15 or 16. It wasn't a good conversation with the parental units.






Are these people still on my lawn?!?!!
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Both bladder AND stream get smaller
Depends on what medication you're taking.
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Both bladder AND stream get smaller
Depends on what medication you're taking.
Neither insulin nor aspirin should do that :
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Neither insulin nor aspirin should do that :
I'm taking Finasteride. Makes the Prostate smaller. Helps you piss. Has been working well for more than 15 years.
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When 75% of the stuff at Radio Shack were discrete components...

Last time I went into one in 2010 looking for a Resistor, the clerk point me to a 4' x 6' panel at the far corner

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^^^^^ You've got questions? We've got blank stares! ^^^^^
I know what you mean, in this case when I told him that in the old days the store would be full of discrete components. Turn out that he has been there for about 30 years + and he also miss the the Old Good Days.
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