Thanks for the reminder, Martin. I was in flight school when Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon. I set my almost 3 year old son in front of the TV so he can still to this day say that he saw it.
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Old Enough To Remember?
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STripper
Brian
Huh? I was referring to the design of those cans...
ST1100Y
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... climbing a 30-foot rope with a life-saving 2-inch-thick mat below...
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... the vacuum of space...
In fairness, they are quite nice cans
scootac
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Or a 20' sapling till it bends over and you touch the ground again.... climbing a 30-foot rope with a life-saving 2-inch-thick mat below...
I would do that. Went bigger and bigger. Then one tree wouldn't bend enough. Went out further, further, furth...SNAP! Oof!
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... life was simpler then...
STripper
Brian
... life was simpler then...
Can you imagine? Windows 11, disk 1 of 14,322...
ST1100Y
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Can you imagine, working without all the bloatware aboard that was only created to force us into buying expensive hardware over, and over, and over again...
This is how I saved data with my first computer.... life was simpler then...
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... life was simpler then...
Oh yea??
My very first portable personal computer was a 1982 Panasonic Sr. Partner. It weighed over 30 US lbs. it had a click-on keyboard, a carrying handle, 2 5-1/4" floppy drives (pre 3 1/2"). I have no recollection of the green on black text screen size (3"x5" ??).
It had NO HARD DRIVE - you had to boot the operating system 5 1/4" floppy in one drive, boot up, then use a second 5 1/4" floppy for your data storage. Those 5 1/4" floppy disks were true floppy!
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STripper
Brian
Yes. Linux.
I still have one of these... with a lead acid battery!Oh yea??
My very first portable personal computer was a 1982 Panasonic Sr. Partner. It weighed over 30 US lbs. it had a click-on keyboard, a carrying handle, 2 5-1/4" floppy drives (pre 3 1/2"). I have no recollection of the green on black text screen size (3"x5" ??).
It had NO HARD DRIVE - you had to boot the operating system 5 1/4" floppy in one drive, boot up, then use a second 5 1/4" floppy for your data storage. Those 5 1/4" floppy disks were true floppy!
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I used to have a Kaypro portable. Very similar.Oh yea??
My very first portable personal computer was a 1982 Panasonic Sr. Partner. It weighed over 30 US lbs. it had a click-on keyboard, a carrying handle, 2 5-1/4" floppy drives (pre 3 1/2"). I have no recollection of the green on black text screen size (3"x5" ??).
It had NO HARD DRIVE - you had to boot the operating system 5 1/4" floppy in one drive, boot up, then use a second 5 1/4" floppy for your data storage. Those 5 1/4" floppy disks were true floppy!
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Refuses to work with the Garmin plotting programs...
I still have a Commodore SX-64 (portable-ish) and an Osborne Executive (also portable-ish) out in the garage. And the first computer I had was a Commodore PET - with 8K of RAM (Upgraded from 4K!) and a cassette tape drive for storage.
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Those were not 'portable' they were 'lugable' ...I used to have a Kaypro portable. Very similar.
