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real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:

>And the other point is that while *you* might have moved on, some of us
>still use computers made in 1986.  Yes, serious professional computer
>users tend to use more modern kit, but not everyone can afford to do
>that.  And personally, I *like* using equipment that's supposedly
>`obsolute'.

There have been a number of computers I've kept for years after most people
would have considered them obsolete, among them the ...

- Osborne 1
- Tandy 100 and 200
- Original Mac, later upgraded to a Plus

<nostalgia>
The Osborne was a slight pain in having only a 55-character wide screen,
but was otherwise a delightful machine in the pre-portable days. I took it
to the States with me one time and it was an absolutely luxury having
access to my usual machine while I was away.

The Tandy 100 and 200 were beautiful for their intended purpose: text
editing and email access while on the move. Ok, limited screen sizes and
very limited storage capacity, but with a modem you just wrote a document
and then emailed it to yourself for later downloading on your desktop
machine. Battery life of 40 hours (I still miss that!) and, if you do run
out of power, just slap in some more Duracells.

I bought the 7th Mac brought into the UK, upgraded it to a Plus in about
'86 and continued using it until, oh, must have been at least 1990.
Replaced it with one of those super-dooper LC things. :-)
</nostalgia>

Ben

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