[NSRCA-discussion] Merry Christmas to me!!

[Ed Alt]

Makes you appreciate the finer things in life, doesn't it?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Pappas" <d.pappas at kodeos.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Merry Christmas to me!!

> Writing 6800 assembly and debugging with a single-step monitor was what 
> convinced me that I was gonna grow up to be ...
> A hardware guy!
>
> Dean Pappas
> Sr. Design Engineer
> Kodeos Communications
> 111 Corporate Blvd.
> South Plainfield, N.J. 07080
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> d.pappas at kodeos.com
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>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Ed Alt
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 1:24 PM
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> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Merry Christmas to me!!
>
>
> And THAT was 16 bits.  A big deal in those days.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Konneker" <jlkonn at hotmail.com>
> To: <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> 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....
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: "Jay Marshall" <lightfoot at sc.rr.com>
>>>Reply-To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>>>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
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
>>>[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Fred Huber
>>>Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:19 PM
>>>To: NSRCA Mailing List
>>>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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