Good Old Days

Sunday AM, while waiting for Windows 95 to boot on my trusty Hewitt-Rand 386-33, I found myself browsing through a copy of the June 1982 edition of Creative Computing. Editorial content included an evaluation of the Osborne I, an article on "Mass Storage Options" in which the writer encourages readers to forsake audio cassettes and advance to the 5 1/4" floppy drives, or even (gasp) one of the Winchester hard drives which will store five or even ten megs of data! (An advertisement on page 189 quotes $3339.00 for five megs capacity.) On page 116 Osmo A. Wiio, professor of communications, deplores the unreadability of computer documentation. Ads offer floppies for $ 1.90, 48K of ram for your Atari for $ 299.00, and on the inside rear cover a young looking William Shatner is flogging the Vic 20. "Under $ 300.00, the best computer value in the world today. The only computer you'll need for years to come." Well, Win95 is up on the 386, got to go. Cheers Charlie Fox