Infinite MonkeysThis wonderful article from a 1984 Byte magazine brings back memories. It's really the little things--that dot matrix printer, the fact that the keyboard cord was coiled like a phone cord (remember phone cords?). I think the connector was even a small version pf a phone plug. I also like the complaint about the location of the Command key...as I look down now, it's in the same place.
I remember my first computer. A Tandy 286 with dual floppies (no hard drive, no Windows, no nuttin). And that damn "phone" cord always catching on table edges. What a pain in the ass. Of course I had a dot matrix printer. I remember how happy I was to upgrade to a daisy wheel.
Posted by: JamesPh. at June 30, 2005 09:04 PMKaypro 4 Plus, CP/M operating system, 64K RAM, two DS/DD floppies. Built-in 300 baud modem. C. Itoh dot matrix printer.
I spent HOURS every day talking with my friends on Honeywell's Multics system. Oh, and my friend at MIT and I would exchange messages via the ARPAnet. Which Al Gore invented, as I remember.
Good times.
Posted by: Monkey RobbL at July 1, 2005 02:37 PMJebus, I feel like the dog in the Farside cartoon:
blah blah dot matrix blah blah
blah blah blah blah
blah dot matrix blah blah