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

[NOSPAMpercim@odyssee.net (Mark Percival)]

On 28 Jan 1998 05:26:15 GMT, tturner@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () wrote:

>Randy Shackelford (shack@onyx.southwind.net) wrote:
>: Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
>: :     This is kind of wasting bandwidth, but I thought I'd share that
>: : today -- January 26, 1998, marks exactly 10 years (to the VERY day)
>: : that I have owned and have been using an Apple IIgs! :-) I find it
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>: Mine hits eleven years in March. I need to pull out my Apple credit charge
>: slip to see the exact date. Boy, the only parts from my original system whic
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>
>--> Got my first system - a IIe, in Oct/85. Still have it. Still use it
>    every month. Mucho upgraded, stuffed with accessories, several parts
>    replaced; but still in a place of honour in my 'puter inner sanctum
>    and still hummin' along A-OK! I could never sell it; it has way too
>    much learnin' history behind it. The late nights, the discoveries,
>    the sheer enjoyment - nothing can beat that . . .
>--

My first Apple II set me back $1,200 CDN back in Nov. 1981.  For my
money I got an original Apple II w/48K RAM and a single Disk II drive.
I bought it second hand from a doctor who had all his original manuals
plus a copy of AppleDOS 3.1.

My best friend got me involved with Apple II's after he purchased his
new Apple II+ in Sep 1979.  He had bought one of the first II+'s sold
in the Montreal area.



Mark R. Percival
Montreal, Quebec
percim@odyssee.net

An Apple II fanatic since 1979.