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Salut/Hi "Colin Barnhorst" ,
le/on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:35:16 -0700, tu disais/you said:- If I remember right, the IBM 5150 first shipped with only a jack for a cassette recorder at the base price. It booted to the Basic prompt. The 5.25 drive was extra. I never saw one without a floppy and the cassette recorder idea never caught on. On the first IBM PCs, _everything_ was extra. Keyboard, monitor, video adaptor, (d'you remember the old Hercules board?) everything!! I'm surprised though about the FDD! In high school in the 50's we computed ballistics problems with rubber bands and paper clips. Ah... those were the days, I remember one day at the physics lab doing that. I was seeking, in addition to computing ballistics, to demonstrate the resonance of enamelled steel lampshades. I am afraid that my aim was a touch off, because the paper clip hit the light bulb, broke it, and lodged between the two terminals of the coiled coil of the bulb. After the sound of tinkling glass, instantly followed by the flash and bang of the short circuit and the descent of darkness as every fuse in the place blew, came the awed voice of Gordon, the lab assistant. "Good shot, Ian". (I failed physics that year!) Later on, when I was older, but no wiser I was "recruited" to shoot down the demonstration helium filled rescue balloons released in error at one of the Olympia Boat shows and nestling up against the ceiling. I did better with my trusty 'lacky band and paper clips than the staff did with their air rifle! I have to admit that the rather dishy models who had been employed to wander round the show trailing their balloons soon learnt not to come near our stand! They found it disconcerting to be wandering around dangling limp bits of rubber on the ground! Ah me... -- All the Best Ian Hoare http://www.souvigne.com mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website |
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Great story! But Ian, about that last sentence.... Oh am I tempted!
-- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Ian Hoare" wrote in message ... Salut/Hi "Colin Barnhorst" , le/on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:35:16 -0700, tu disais/you said:- If I remember right, the IBM 5150 first shipped with only a jack for a cassette recorder at the base price. It booted to the Basic prompt. The 5.25 drive was extra. I never saw one without a floppy and the cassette recorder idea never caught on. On the first IBM PCs, _everything_ was extra. Keyboard, monitor, video adaptor, (d'you remember the old Hercules board?) everything!! I'm surprised though about the FDD! In high school in the 50's we computed ballistics problems with rubber bands and paper clips. Ah... those were the days, I remember one day at the physics lab doing that. I was seeking, in addition to computing ballistics, to demonstrate the resonance of enamelled steel lampshades. I am afraid that my aim was a touch off, because the paper clip hit the light bulb, broke it, and lodged between the two terminals of the coiled coil of the bulb. After the sound of tinkling glass, instantly followed by the flash and bang of the short circuit and the descent of darkness as every fuse in the place blew, came the awed voice of Gordon, the lab assistant. "Good shot, Ian". (I failed physics that year!) Later on, when I was older, but no wiser I was "recruited" to shoot down the demonstration helium filled rescue balloons released in error at one of the Olympia Boat shows and nestling up against the ceiling. I did better with my trusty 'lacky band and paper clips than the staff did with their air rifle! I have to admit that the rather dishy models who had been employed to wander round the show trailing their balloons soon learnt not to come near our stand! They found it disconcerting to be wandering around dangling limp bits of rubber on the ground! Ah me... -- All the Best Ian Hoare http://www.souvigne.com mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website |
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ROFL
But you managed to restrain yourself g Joan Colin Barnhorst wrote: Great story! But Ian, about that last sentence.... Oh am I tempted! |
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Salut/Hi "Colin Barnhorst" ,
le/on Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:15:11 -0700, tu disais/you said:- Great story! But Ian, about that last sentence.... Oh am I tempted! "Give in to tempation, it may not pass your way again!" RAH. Sayings of Lazarus Long -- All the Best Ian Hoare http://www.souvigne.com mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website |
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Ain't imagination a wonderful thing? g
-- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... ROFL But you managed to restrain yourself g Joan Colin Barnhorst wrote: Great story! But Ian, about that last sentence.... Oh am I tempted! |
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lol Yes the mind just boggles g
Joan Colin Barnhorst wrote: Ain't imagination a wonderful thing? g |
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