how time flies...(was Re: Classic Computers vs. Micro$oft 'droids

From: John Chris Wren <jcwren_at_jcwren.com>
Date: Thu May 9 21:36:15 2002

It's almost enough to start making you think you're getting old...

--John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Tony Duell
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 21:29 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: how time flies...(was Re: Classic Computers vs. Micro$oft
> 'droids
>
>
> > What's really bad is that in another couple of years it will
> > have been a full 10 years since Commodore filed for bankruptcy and
> > another 2 years after that it will be 10 years since Atari got
> > swallowed by JTS. It is kind of hard to believe it's going on 20
> > years since the intro of the Mac and Amiga though.... even the first
> > machines from Be are 10 years old now.
>
> It's amazing to me that the first thing I built for my Ph.D. (a
> hand-wired transputer CPU board) is now on-topic here. I don't think of
> things as recent as that as being 'classic'...
>
> Is it really 25 years since the Apple ][, TRS-80 model 1 and PET 2001.
> Eeek....
>
> -tony
Received on Thu May 09 2002 - 21:36:15 BST

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