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To: Tommaso who wrote (25707)	2/1/2005 8:42:06 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Ah, the good ol' days -- $525 floppy drive (140 kilobytes); $300 9-pin dot matrix printer; 1500 baud cassette recorder for input; 40 character wide display on the TV; 0.894 megahertz 8-bit processor; $200 modem that ran 300 baud, slower than I could read text. BBS's. I was a very early user of Compuserve, and boy did that suck. $6/hour, too. Mine ran MS Basic for it's OS -- I had a friend that owned the same TRS-80 Color Computer who went to work for MS the next year and wrote the MS Basic for the Atari 800. This guy retired about 10 years ago, buying the Pro Bowling Assoc. with two other guys. So it turns out my job has been more reliable... <g>