just outta curiosity

From: Mike Kenzie <KenzieM_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun Apr 8 14:12:30 2001

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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
To: "Classic Computers Mailing List"
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Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: just outta curiosity


> On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, bill claussen wrote:
>
> One of the things I am doing to promote appreciation of
old computers and
> computer history amongst the younger generation is
preparing a
> mini-lecture on computer history that I plan to give at
local schools (for
> free of course). My idea is to show them how we got to
where we are today
> with computing technology, for example showing them an
evolution of disk
> drive technology by comparing a ZIP drive to a 3.5" to a
5.25" to an 8" to

My APPLE ][ plus came with CP/M manuals. Reading them I
found a reference to the new mini diskettes, they were
referring to 5.25" floppies.

Browsing in used book stores this weekend I found TI,
heathkit, Intel and Motorola chip reference books and a
manual for my Amstrad 1640. I'm afraid that many of the
older machines won't even be recognised as an old computer
by people who started out with a Pentium. When I ask if
they have any old hardware they say that they had a Pentium
100 but it was too old and they threw it out.
Received on Sun Apr 08 2001 - 14:12:30 BST