Speaking of terminals - a Morrow Designs/Lear Siegler ADM20 dropped on me today

On 2/9/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote: I can completely understand that. In my case, since I did _not_ end up with a PC-compatible until 1992 when I bought a 386DX40 mobo at the Dayton Hamvention (*specifically* to run Linux, not DOS/Windows, FWIW), my best financial gamble was buying a used SPARCstation1 for $800 and then dropping another $1200 in disks and memory. That investment has paid for itself time and time again in the form of job and travel opportunities. The only purchase that I think could rival that one was a Commodore PET at age 13 that directly led to my first job a few years later (my future employer was advertising for PET programmers in the local Help Wanted section, and the job turned out to be programming a developer pre-release Commodore 64 in the spring of 1982). I've bought a lot of toys over the last 25-30 years, but those two machines turned out to be huge investments in my future. I can easily see how a 5150 in 1982 would be that for someone else. -ethan