[Coco] Re: bio

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:24 PM 10/20/2003 -0700, you wrote:


>Roger Taylor <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote:
>At 08:13 PM 10/20/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >Bob Emery, age 37, living in North Texas
> >
> >Got my first computer, a 32k Extended Basic F-board for Christmas of
> >1982, glad to discover it already had 64K! Couldn't afford a disk drive
> >for about two years. Finally got a 300 baud modem in '85 and quickly
> >ran up a $600 Compuserve bill... DOH! Got a CoCo3 around '87.
>
>Bob,
>
>I remember being tickled pink when I upgraded to 64k,
>
>I remember upgrading from 4k to 16k and thinking I had a lot of memory.I 
>upgraded to 64k a year later and thought I had a monster. Today, 512 megs 
>seems so puny....

Hanging out around the PC makes the 512k for the CoCo look puny, but you 
can do some serious stuff in that huge playground, believe me.  Ah, we're 
so spoiled. :)

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