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Posted by AlmostBob on 10/23/05 18:31
still have an Olivetti m24 with a 20MB hard drive hanging off the network as
a print server, state of the art in 1986, using Dos 3.31 netware2.11 to
connect to the hub & windows pcs, the band printer on its parallel port dont
have windows drivers, print 20000 lines /minute, and a HP7475 takes hours
to plot a 1189*841A0 sheet
I feel OLD
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like fu_ a porcupine
1000 pri_ks against one
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"Cliff Haynes" <chaynes33@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:qhN6f.18124$vw6.14667@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>
> "Triffid" <sodoff@btspamworld.com> wrote in message
> news:435a9c60@212.67.96.135...
> > S.French made an ill-arranged sandwich with:
> >> From: "Bren" <bren20050@hotmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: WinMx off the air?
> >> Date: Friday, October 21, 2005 9:52 AM
> >>
> >>
> >> Triffid wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Still working my end. Running V1.8 on WfWg 3.11.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Your punchline in reply is falling on deaf ears, I'm afraid!
> >>
> >> Most users on this echo have never heard of WFW!!
> >> Oh, give us 30-something's an ounce of credit. I thought the reference
> >> was
> >> hysterical; for all the right reasons, too.
> >>
> >>
> >> I remember WFW (311 and 312) and I'm sure many of us also know what
> >> someone is referring to when the numbers "eighty-eighty-six" are
> >> carelessly tossed into a post, ostensibly attempting the same joke.
> >>
> >> Personally, when I refer to someone who "doesn't get it," though, I
> >> allude
> >> to the "Windows95 users in the back row" or (those fishes-in-barrells)
> >> the
> >> MacIntosh users.
> >>
> >> WFW, a Toshiba Satellite, WP5.1, PrintShop [Broderbund's] and a 9,600
> >> baud
> >> modem got me through college, back in the days when you could actually
> >> stick it out on the same hw/sw config for your upper-classman years
> >> without feeling like an Amish dude on the Comdex tradeshow floor.
> >>
> >> Keep up the valid references and don't pander to an audience that can't
> >> figure out how to "Google" terms they don't immediately recognize.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > :) Glad to fuel the flames of nostalgia - happier times when CPU speed
> > could
> > be assessed by typing DIR or waiting for the cards to come out in
> > Solitaire.
> > The summers were warmer, the winters were colder, and Bill Gates was the
> > good guy for taking on those brutes at IBM. 640K of RAM was as much as
> > anyone could possibly need, and the 5Mb HD on an XT was 'ample'. Oh, and
> > you
> > were thinner then, and better in bed, remember?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I miss my Sinclair ZX-81 Waaaaaaaaaaahhh :o``((
> Actually needed to know how to use a soldering iron, read colour codes, a
> schematic & have a pencil/pen to check off the steps as you followed them.
> Surprising thing is: IT WORKED!
> Oh yes, did I forget? The monitor was the commandeered family TV set.
> Tune in to channel
> 3 or 4 to get going. Sure beat the hell out of the soaps and other
drivel!
> Total cost, including shipping: $84.95 US.
>
> Cheers. :o ))
>
>
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