Re: On this day, 10 years ago...

[mspaeth@mit.edu (Mark C Spaeth)]

In article <34D024CA.7769@swbell.net>, Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>Mitchell Spector writes ...
>>     I still have fond memories of the day I unpacked my (then brand
>> new) GS and set it up. I doubt any other computer I buy in future
>> will provide as much excitement as the GS did for me on that day.
>> ....

>     Back in January of 1981, my dad ordered a ][+. The day it arrived
>was pretty exciting. Playing Lemonade Stand (in color!) was a treat.
>Best of all was having a computer you could program to do all kinds of
>neat things.

Did anyone else play lemonade long enough so that they could predict
the rainstorms perfectly, and find the exact price that would bring in
the most money for the weather? :)

I remember unpacking my //c in 1984.. and actually when I was home over
christmas, my 'rents were going through tax records and found the original
receipt for it... $1500 for the //c, 9" screen, Imagewriter, RF modulator
... and that was with the *huge* "Apple For The Teacher" Discount :)

Being the poor deprived child that I was, I didn't get my //gs until I 
shelled out the cash for it myself out of my paper route money in like
'89... 

>     We added a '286/12 PC in 1990 (then a '486/33, then a K6/233).
>Somehow, the PC's have not evoked the same feelings of anticipation. In
>each case it has been a matter of purchasing a necessity. I can
>appreciate that our current PC is a very nice computer. Getting to
>_like_ it will take some time. 

Yeah.. I've felt nothing from buying a 386, numerous 486's, and even my
Cyrix 6x86 166... but I have to admit the pentium 233 laptop for work 
rules :)  But then again, if I didn't have applewin, mame, and linux, it
just wouldn't be the same...

Just think if apple had made us a //gs laptop :)
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