No O/S as a right more than ever

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
...
> Perhaps life was more interesting when we had the apple II, atari XL,
> atari ST, amiga, amstrad, archimedes, (did anyone not name things starting
> with a back then?), but it sure cost a lot more for a lot lot less.
> I remember 20 years ago wishing I could get one of those 20MB harddisks
> that cost $4000 for my amiga.

    20 years ago I bought an Amiga 2000 with 40MB HD and 8088
    bridgeboard and colour monitor for less than $2,500.

-- 
    Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster         <http://woodbine-gerrard.com>
    ========= Do not reply to the From: address; use Reply-To: ========
    Author:
    Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists