On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:49:15 -0500, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
> Neat! I had a South African programmer (I lived in Africa for three
> years) who
> was the reigning chess champ. He loved Forth and got me started with it.
> That
> was back when CPM was still in use... Oh, memories of a awesome
> continent.
>
> They released a 40M hard drive back then. Days of super computing! : )
> I had the first terminal which had something like 60 columns and 8 rows
> or
> something. It was almost as fast as a punchcard machine, but did not
> quite
> have the capacity. Well, give or take a lie or two.
Ah, you remind me of when I was trying to get a 10 MB hard disk for my old
IBM PS/2 x286 system. RLL interface, $600.
SWB
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