Old farts and new Linux

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 03 May 2004 14:38, duncan brown wrote:
>Michael Gargiullo said:
>>> Gee, and I started programming on a VIC 20 with a tape drive.
>>> Shall, we resurrect the Commodore / Atari wars? :-P
>>
>> Wait... dial into my BBS first... I upgraded it to 1200Bps access 
>> ;-)
>
>i remember staring slack jawed at the 1200bps modem behind the glass
> at toys r us... i was using a 300 baud modem on the school's apple
> IIe's to do my BBS joy...
>
>oh, but then i got my ps/1 with a 2400 baud modem.  the envy of all
> of my friends =]
>
>i can't believe i took the list down to near 0 productivity and 100%
>reminiscence. with a single paragraph.
>
>i'm neat.
>
Yeah, we're both guilty I think.  Me for bringing it up, and not 
thinking it might start a pissing contest.  But boy, it sure did!

>-d
>
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>Understatement of the century:
>"Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing
>a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be
>big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT
>clones"
>         - Linus Torvalds, August 1991
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