Radio Shack Model I
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96% done on latest video production.
Our first was born in '81. The twins a few years later. Much of the decade was spent at home. Some of it's a blur. Landlording in Chicago - tales I could tell!
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Subjects: 1980s, CompuServe, personal history, Radio Shack Model I
Subjects: 1980s, CompuServe, personal history, Radio Shack Model I
shibumi: Lots of creative people are on the MAC platform.
However, ALL corporate people are on Windows.
/there's big $$$ in corporate gigs. Just saying...
qdpsteve #428: ...how 'bout those cassette tape drives back in the day? :-P
In 1979 or so, I was banging out a multi-page document on the old typewriter, with multiple carbon copies.
Not very good with images. But I went through a lot of fanfold paper with it.
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I still have two Model I's, which could probably be coaxed into one full system, except I doubt I have one working 5" drive left.
The Internet Archive - VisiCalc - my first massive programming effort was a complete bookkeeping system based on VC macros for the Shack Model I.
The abstracted hardware model minimums changed.
Did you bitch similarly when XP wouldn't run on a 286?
Posted by: Manifesto de Purp
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“They didn’t have enough video memory. RS saved a couple bucks on each one by only providing 7 (maybe 6, memory is rusty) bits of video memory.”
Got to #525 and had to quit.
Pre-usb computers can be collectibles? How much for my old Shack Model 100 laptop? 
Goodwood night, Heavies.
I was going to be serious about spiritually and theologically enlightening works which changed my life, then I remembered...
Then I were a hacker, by necessity. Now I be (mostly) a user, unavoidably.
Read all… ‖ Subjects: added on 2011 Sep 3
Subjects: computers, Radio Shack Model I, CompuServe, personal history
Subjects: computers, Radio Shack Model I, CompuServe, personal history
My earliest online masks and computer encounters
Read all… ‖ Subjects: added on 2011 Jul 13
Subjects: Internet, computers, CompuServe, Radio Shack Model I, IBM, online communication
Subjects: Internet, computers, CompuServe, Radio Shack Model I, IBM, online communication
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Presented in illustrated documentary, what we know of his story, and the history of our community he inspired.
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