[COCO] Makin' new stuff

[Ward Griffiths]

On 09/08/2005 05:06 am, PaulH96636 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/7/05 3:13:24 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> alsplace at pobox.com writes:
> True,  true -- like all those nuts working on 50 year old cars.
> Ghads, talk about ancient tech with bad gas milage and no features  :-)
>
> -- A
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> Heh, heh.  At what point do we
> designate a computer becomes
> an antique....?    ;-)

I don't hardly ever declare a computer an antique.  I'm bragging to cow-orkers 
that I've got systems older than they are (and more functional and the way 
public schools work, probably smarter -- I did Eliza with a 4k Coco back back 
before AI was k00l, transcribing it from a TRS-80 Mod One).

With cars, I'd put my first '64 Impala gas-guzzler up against anything around 
if the guy I sold it to for tuition money in '73 hadn't killed it.  (A lesson 
I learned a few decades back -- never sell a car to somebody drunker than you 
are without waiting for the check to clear before passing over the pink 
slip).
-- 
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

Let's get real. According to the CBO's report, in the current fiscal 
year the U.S. government is gorging on some $2,142 billion of revenues, 
consisting of taxes, fees, charges, fines, and other species of 
extractions from the people's purses. This sum works out to 
approximately $7,500 for every man, woman, and child resident in this 
country, or $30,000 for a family of four average persons. Perhaps some 
of those people feel they are getting benefits worth at least this much. 
I myself don't have that feeling.   --  Robert Higgs