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"'Kate" wrote in message
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On 27 Nov 2005 18:22:04 -0800, "givehope2005"
the following was posted in blue dry erase marker:

??????????

OMG. You psycho chick from hell.


Ok I just read through all the messages. Ya, yikes. LOL

Christine

'Kate wrote ...


I remember programming a computer made by Timex in the early 1970's.


Gosh!... you must be like really *old* or summat

Yes, the watch people. It used the TV as the monitor and you could
actually use it to write a letter. Couldn't send it though 'cause
there was no way to print and no internet to speak of. But you could
see the words on the screen.


mebbe you mean the early 80's as in

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=477

in the UK we knew it as Siclair ZX81


or mebbe

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=634

which we called a Spectrum... (with a truly awful and I mean *Awful* rubbery
keyboard)

At the time, I saw little practical use
for it. A typewriter, at least, resulted in a letter that could be
mailed.

wise words indeed... (never mind tho, i did hear tell of a chap at Decca
records who turned the chance to sign the Beatles* in 1962 cos he thought
that Guitar groups have 'had their day'...)

z

.... so, how is Methusela ? ...



*Granny says that they were a pop group in ancient times...