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To: Paul Engel who wrote (31241)	9/6/1997 3:19:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	of 186894

Thank you for the correction it was 4.77 MHz. My memory is starting to fail. I remember it well. Fall, 1985. My first computer. From the back of a little half-inch thick (or less) ad magazine called Computer Shopper I mail-ordered a Pinecomm PC-XT clone with a 4.77 MHz 8088, dual floppy, CGA video with amber monochrome monitor, flip-top case, and 640k of RAM for $995. Separately bought a full-height Seagate 20 Meg HD and controller for $495. Even later purchased the screaming Volksmodem 12 external 1200 bps modem (no acoustic coupler for me!). This was real money back then. I probably should have bought Intel's IPO six months later instead... Remind me to tell you about the ad in the April 1979 Byte for a CPM computer "with 64k of RAM to run even the most sophisticated applications." OTOH I just did so don't bother.

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