Good Old Days

From: Charles E. Fox <foxvideo_at_mail.wincom.net>
Date: Tue Jun 17 07:32:51 1997

        Sunday AM, while waiting for Windows 95 to boot on my trusty
Hewitt-Rand 386-33, I found myself browsing through a copy of the June 1982
edition of Creative Computing.
        Editorial content included an evaluation of the Osborne I, an
article on "Mass Storage Options" in which the writer encourages readers to
forsake audio cassettes and advance to the 5 1/4" floppy drives, or even
(gasp) one of the Winchester hard drives which will store five or even ten
megs of data! (An advertisement on page 189 quotes $3339.00 for five megs
capacity.)
        On page 116 Osmo A. Wiio, professor of communications, deplores the
unreadability of computer documentation.
        Ads offer floppies for $ 1.90, 48K of ram for your Atari for $
299.00, and on the inside rear cover a young looking William Shatner is
flogging the Vic 20. "Under $ 300.00, the best computer value in the world
today. The only computer you'll need for years to come."
        Well, Win95 is up on the 386, got to go.
                                                
                                                Cheers
                                                Charlie Fox
Received on Tue Jun 17 1997 - 07:32:51 BST