Posted by doc on 09/20/05 04:12

wow! a 5 mb drive. that is soooooo cooooool :o) i rememember those big
ole floppys that i used in my trs80 (that's the way i went, my son went the
c64 route) and to think that that 5 1/4" could hold a whopping 160kb and
when i got converted to dual sided it was 320kb. eGADS! i now have
pictures that wouldn't fit on the dual sided one :o)

doc

"TonyP" <arpierre@hooptonline.net> wrote in message
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> doc wrote:
>
>> thanks for the input TonyP. i sure liked hearing that the machine i have
>> will more than likely be sufficient. i will eventually upgrade the
>> memory all the way to 4Gb but i was shocked to see you have an x800.
>> hmmmm, they told me the x700 was the last one out. just goes to show ya
>> that the stores will say whatever is necessary to get the product out the
>> door :o)
>
> The X800XT was their top card at one time. Now, it's the X850XT. The
> X700XT, then the Pro version and finally, just the X700 in order of
> performance. The X700 was not the last one out. It was/is ATI's mid-range
> card for those that wanted an alternative other than nVidia's 6600GT. My
> card competes with nVidia's 6800GT.
>
>> the coleco story was one that i made a fortune off of since most of my
>> cleints wanted to experience just a tenth of their success. and like you
>> say, they made a big mistake with Adam and it was a total disaster, which
>> i later incorporated into the downside of over estimating ones
>> capabilities and to know your enemy as well as yourself because c64 did
>> their homework and made it simple (componentized) so that folks could
>> spend what they wanna spend and get what THEY wanted and not a package
>> with a bunch of bells and whistles they maybe don't need.
>
> Yeah, like the daisey wheel printer for the Adam computer. In some ways,
> it was an interesting product. Expand your gaming console to a "full
> fledge" computer. But, after doing the research, I opted for a Commodore
> 64 and haven't looked back. It was a gaming computer. The C64 community
> was great. I met a lot of great people who used the computer and I started
> my first BBS off of one using CNet software. Ahh... the days of side
> sector editing on SFD 1001's and my huge at the time C9060 5meg HD!
>

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