25 May
1998
25 May
'98
7:01 a.m.
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Uncle Roger wrote:
At 01:46 PM 5/22/98 -0700, you wrote:
In my day, sonny, 16K was plenty of room. Back then, we knew how to
program. It was an art. Not like the kids today, with their megabytes and
Gooeys and write-once-read-many, magneto-optical, doohickies... (whups,
gotta go, time for maaaatttlooock!)
You fooled me, Roger. I was expecting maaalooox!
- don
Your
hopes are dashed. The only pricey IBM PCs are the ones that had 16K
installed at the factory and weren't upgraded. The 64K ones are relatively
That's absurd (bordering on perverse) -- what could you DO with a machine
like that? (Yes, run BASIC and use cassettes... I know.)
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