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#1
01-24-2016, 11:28 AM
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Historical! This is what Clyde has!
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1911 Pistols can be additive!  COTEP CBOB0586 No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” Thomas Jefferson 
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#5
01-24-2016, 04:18 PM
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Perspective here, the average PC Hard Drive these days is 1 Terabyte. That is 16,000 times more storage than those days.
Average RAM these days 8 Gigabytes. 8 gigabytes RAM is 8,388,608 times More ram than The Optional 256 k those days. Processor speed? Dare say Billions of times Faster and Many more Cores than those days, ALL That for a Small Fraction of the cost back then. Considering Inflation, it is Mind Boggling!  One can now buy a NICE PC With all peripherals included for about $600.00 Today's price! That would likely translate to about $100.00 max back then!
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1911 Pistols can be additive! COTEP CBOB0586 No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” Thomas Jefferson
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#6
01-24-2016, 06:06 PM
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Yep. I learned to program on an IBM 1620 Mark 2, with 4K of memory!! Now if my computer has less than 4G, I'm not satisfied.
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COTEP #719 "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria
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#7
01-24-2016, 10:50 PM
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#8
01-24-2016, 11:05 PM
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Besides reviving memories of Mike's serial banning string, it's an interesting reminder.
At one time IMSAI was a world leader in floppy disks, etc. So was Elephant. Were are they now?
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COTEP #719 "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria
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#9
01-25-2016, 03:59 AM
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My first computer was an Osborne One, CPM80 based, 256K of ram, with TWO single side single density disk drives (92K each!) and a five inch green phosphorus monitor. Truly the first "luggable" it weighed 23 pounds. Cost me $1999 in 1983, which would be about $4,000 or so in today's dollars.
Ran my first business on it for 5 years. Should have bought a bunch of notebooks and pens instead. But "Ya Learn".... Da 
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COTEP: CBOB578 DW CCO SIG GSR 1911 SA Micro Compact and a spectacular cast of others! "You have never lived, until you have almost died. And for those who fight for it, life has a flavor that the protected will never know." Guy de Maupassant, 1893. Anonymously, penned on a sign at a command post at Khe Sanh, RVN.
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