[Coco] 128k Bubble Memory

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 27 July 2009, Roger Merchberger wrote:

>Rumor has it that Ries, Rich (NY80) may have mentioned these words:

>>Sir Dennis,

>>  I just finished going through my copies of The Rainbow last weekend.

>>What a blast from the past! While I had drooled over a lot of the Green

>>Mountain Micro stuff, my dreams were greater than my wallet. That is to

>>say, "I woulda if I coulda, but I couldn't so I didn't."

>

>Ugh... that was me, too! I could _barely_ afford the magazines & enough

>hardware to "not suck" in the computing world. ;-)

>

>$400 floppy drives, $100 worth of 512K RAM (well, until the resin factory

>gesplodes 2 weeks later driving RAM back to $400/512K ;-) $139 for an

>operating system that doesn't suck... oh, wait, now you pay that for

> Vista...


There ARE other choices Roger, chief among them being linux. Todays os-9.  and 
its free to boot.


>Maybe the "good ol' days" didn't suck so bad after all!!! ;-)

>

>'course, now that I can afford a little more, things like "computers that

>last 20 years" and "operating systems that don't suck" aren't available any

>more. :-/

>

>>(Can you imagine patching Windoze to improve it...

>

>Yea, it's called "Patch Tuesday." :-))

>

>Too bad they don't have a patch that turns it into OS-9.


Or better yet, dl a copy of mandriva-2009.1 and install that.  I'll eventually 
be using it instead of fedora 10 here.


>;-)

>

>Laterz,

>Roger "Merch" Merchberger

>

>P.S. Some [foolish, IMHO] people look up to Bill Gates... DB-K & Dr. Marty

>were always *my* heros when it came to computing. I couldn't afford what

>y'all (or anyone else) were selling at the time, but your contributions

>weren't lost on me - they drove me to continue in the computing realm

>instead of becoming a truck driver like my dad. (A noble field, and yes - I

>could drive a Freightliner @17 [over 2 lifetimes ago, it seems...] but

>unlike my dad, my life [or family] didn't depend on it.)  Everything I've

>accomplished (employment by GM, a decade of self-employment, and beyond...)

>was driven by your unknowing encouragement.

>

>For that, you have my deepest thanks...

>

>--

>Roger "Merch" Merchberger   | "Profile, don't speculate."

>SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers |     Daniel J. Bernstein

>zmerch at 30below.com          |

>

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