[Coco] 128k Bubble Memory

[Roger Merchberger]

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...

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.

;-)

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...

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Roger "Merch" Merchberger   | "Profile, don't speculate."
SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers |     Daniel J. Bernstein
zmerch at 30below.com          |