Posted by MassiveProng on 02/07/07 00:19

On 6 Feb 2007 06:37:31 -0800, "SFTVratings"
<SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com> Gave us:

>
>Low Life #3 wrote:
>> "SFTVratings" <SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> : Low Life #3 wrote:
>> : > "SFTVratings" <SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com>
>> : >
>> : > : Cool. I had a computer in 1986 (commodore=128), but no modem, no
>> : > : printer.. My parents made me buy one piece at a time, so in 1985 was
>> : > : the computer. 1986 was the disk drive. .....
>> : >
>> : > your *parents*? > please.
>> :
>> : Yes. I was only 14 in 1986. How much money did you have at age 14?
>>
>> ok, off the hook.. a child prodigy
>
>
>Good. Given how loooong ago it was, most of the posters of this forum
>(35 and younger) would have only been children or teens. And not
>enough money to buy a ~$300 computer. They had to rely on the
>generosity of their parents.


I don't remember any computers back then that were worth a shit that
were only $300.

Also, I never had multi hundred dollar gifts from my parents. There
were six kids, and we got maybe a 1 or 2 hundred dollar christmas each
year for each of us.

[Back to original message]