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Article #3869Re: Now I Understand
From: PerfectReign
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:27
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:27
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Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov turned on the Etch-A-Sketch and wrote: >>Of course, that was almost twenty years ago. > > I was Major Amiga 500, 2000, and the 3000. There was no Software for > the AmigA, the best stuff never made it out of Germany. Ahh, that makes sense. I remember my friends (in Stuttgart) having shitloads of software for his Amiga. Yet I never really heard of it other than in passing here in the US. By that time, everything was pretty much Macintosh vs. DOS for the home user. (I was on Vax and Mac systems at school.) > > Sooo I grabbed software from any source available, people, pirate > sites, Internet with Pine (no sticking WWW for me.) Yeah, all the software my buddies had (and traded) was either supplied by pirate bbs' or they copied directly from unwitting software stores. (Remember software stores?) > > To kinda show you what I still have software wise. > I have Three wooden boxes like this one, three drawers each > http://i39.tinypic.com/5u1i11.jpg > > Each drawer is filled with 720K floppy disk. (most of the disk were > 1.4, but 720K was what the AmigA did. > http://i42.tinypic.com/fof67n.jpg > > And yes indeed they are all in storage :) > > I also ran one of the most popular BBS's in my area, Cnet, it was a > chat board with 6 lines. What's you're area? -- www.perfectreign.com || www.filesite.org Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock
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From: PerfectReign <theperfectreign@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Now I Understand
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:27:18 -0800
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