[NSRCA-discussion] Merry Christmas to me!!

[Ed Alt]

And THAT was 16 bits.  A big deal in those days.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Konneker" <jlkonn at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Merry Christmas to me!!

>I still have my TI-99 boxed away somewhere....
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>>From: "Jay Marshall" <lightfoot at sc.rr.com>
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>>To: "'NSRCA Mailing List'" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Merry Christmas to me!!
>>Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:50:38 -0500
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>>I liked the Radio Shack Color Computer. The schematics were in the 
>>Motorola
>>computer chip catalog so I hand built one by wire wrapping. Copied the OS
>>from a real model. Great little unit after increasing the memory.
>>
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>>[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Fred Huber
>>Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:19 PM
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>>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Merry Christmas to me!!
>>
>>With all that could be done on a 64K machine... it makes you wonder why
>>they
>>need 1 megabyte just for Windows XP registry with a basic installation
>>(I've
>>seen a 2.5 megabyte registry file...)
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Bob Kane <mailto:getterflash at yahoo.com>
>>To: NSRCA Mailing List <mailto:nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>>Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 11:08 AM
>>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Merry Christmas to me!!
>>
>>I had a C64 for a couple of years . . .   ran an operating system called
>>GEOS that actually made it functional for more than games. Had an external
>>5.25" floppy drive and a Star parallel printer. Those were the days.
>>
>>Bob Kane
>>getterflash at yahoo.com
>>
>>----- Original Message ----
>>From: Keith Hoard <khoard at gmail.com>
>>To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>>Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 11:28:25 AM
>>Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Merry Christmas to me!!
>>Last night my son gave me the coolest Christmas Gift. . . . a brand new
>>(well, kind of). . .Commodore 64 computer!!
>>
>>He began giggling uncontrollably when I right-clicked on a Windows icon 
>>and
>>showed him that it took up a little more than 64K of memory, and that is
>>all
>>the memory the C64 used for everything.
>>
>>I think he's facinated with a computer that doesn't have storage, sound, 
>>or
>><GASP> a mouse.
>>--
>>
>>Keith Hoard
>>Collierville, TN
>>khoard at gmail.com
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