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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>RS - TRS - 80 alias Radio Shack
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=pcosky@comcast.net href="mailto:pcosky@comcast.net">Pete Cosky</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org
href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">'General pattern
discussion'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:16
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website
back up</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
went from that to an Apple IIe to an IBM clone. TONS of money for very little
computing power in retrospect, but it paved the way for things like
hackers……<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Thanks
again Marty for all you do keeping the website going.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</A>
[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Lightfoot<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:07
AM<BR><B>To:</B> 'General pattern discussion'<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[NSRCA-discussion] website back up<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Glad
to see that I wasn’t the only sucker that bought a DEC Rainbow. I couldn’t
afford the HD. Can you believe that we paid over $3K for that anchor? Of
course that smooth scroll display made it worthwhile! I had a grad school
classmate in ’82 from IBM who said that the PC would never amount to
anything.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Brush Script MT'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Jay
Marshall</SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"> </SPAN><SPAN
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nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org
[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Pete
Cosky<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:48 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
'General pattern discussion'<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website
back up<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
loved the Rainbow. CPM OS and dual 5 ¼ floppies in a single unit height….it
was THE machine IMHO back then.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org
[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Phil
Spelt<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:38 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
General pattern discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website
back up<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal>In 1983, I bought a 5MB hard drive for my DEC Rainbow for
about $500, and wondered how I would EVER fill up the 5 MB!!! 'Course,
we can do a LOTmore these days, such as Call Of Duty, etc, etc.
lol...<BR><BR>At 08:22 PM 12/3/2010, you wrote:<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal>Yep. My 1st hard drive was 10MB,
and cost $450. Storage and RAM are crazy cheap these days. Consider that the
software used to control the Command Module on the Apollo missions ran in 60K
of memory. 2 blocks of ROM (24k and 32k each) and 1 block of RAM (4k).
<BR><BR>Doug<BR><BR><BR><BR>---- Ron Van Putte <vanputte@cox.net> wrote:
<BR>> A computer guy told me recently that he sold hard drives with
one <BR>> terrabyte of memory for over $2 million several years ago,
after I <BR>> told him I had just bought one for $69.99 plus
shipping.<BR>> <BR>> Ron VP<BR>> <BR>> On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:27 PM,
Bob Richards wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > Core memory, I bet!<BR>>
><BR>> > --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Phil Spelt <chuenkan@comcast.net>
wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > Speaking of "knowing the whole thing", Ron,
in 1972, already, when <BR>> > I was a college prof in Indiana, we
had a relatively new Digital <BR>> > Equipment Corp. (DEC)
PDP-11-20 mainframe computer in the comp <BR>> > center. A
DEC guy was there service the disk drives, and I asked <BR>> > him
something about the memory modules. He didn't know the answer,
<BR>> > and when I expressed surprise, he indicated that there was no
one <BR>> > at DEC that knew any of their computers from end to
end!!! And <BR>> > that was 1972 --think how complex things
have gotten by now...<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> >
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><B><I>--></I></B><B><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: maroon"> There are only two
types of aircraft -- fighters and targets.<BR><BR></SPAN></I></B>Phil Spelt,
Past President, Knox County Radio Control Society,
Inc.<BR> URL: <A
href="http://www.kcrctn.com/">http://www.kcrctn.com<BR></A>AMA--1294,
Scientific Leader Member SPA--177, Board
Member<BR> My URL: <A
href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/~chuenkan/">http://mywebpages.comcast.net/~chuenkan/<BR></A>
(865) 435-1476 v (865) 604-0541 c <o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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