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Neil Parker <nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu> wrote in article 
> Argh.  Now look what you've done--you've got me reminiscing about the
good
> ol' days.  I'm only 31--that's too young to reminisce about the good ol'
> days.

Heh. You know what they used to say back during the Vietnam War days--
"Never trust anyone over 30!"

> But on the other hand, I guess the ol' days weren't always good.  Back
then,
> 64K and lowercase were unheard-of luxuries, and lest anybody think flame
> wars are limited to comp.sys.apple2, consider that when my family first
> subscribed to Softalk in 1982, their letters column was raging with a
> months-long flame war over the propriety of scantily-clad women in the
ads
> for Howardsoft's tax preparation software.

Hey!  My II+ had 64K and 80-col. lower case back in 1982.  Bumped up to
192K in 1983.  Though I admit that I didn't get around to adding a 40-col
lower-case chip until 1989. <g>

TomZ