25 May
1998
25 May
'98
5:10 a.m.
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!)
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roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
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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.) 
25 May
25 May
5:30 a.m.
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!)
When I was your age, K was nothing more than the last letter of
"Canuck",
(Sorry, this was about to get silly. Time to go upstairs, take my
meds, and look with fond memory at my slide rule.)
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
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.) 
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.)
--------------------------------------------------------------------- O-
Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
26 May
26 May
8:40 a.m.
Uncle Roger 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!)
Back in my day, we had to carve our own IC's out of wood.
R.
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10 a.m.
At 12:40 5/26/98 -0800, rax wrote:
Back in my day, we had to carve our own IC's out of
wood.
So bits are called that because they were drilled?
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2:09 p.m.
At 12:40 5/26/98 -0800, rax wrote:
Yep. And the little chips of wood that were left were called...chips.
R.
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Robert Arnold
Managing Editor
The MonkeyPool
WebSite Content Development
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Creator and Eminence Grise
Warbaby: The WebSite. The Domain. The Empire.
muahahahahaaaaa
http://www.warbaby.com
Dreadlocks on white boys give me the willies.
Back in my day, we had to carve our own IC's
out of wood.
So bits are called that because they were drilled?
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