#4567030 - 05/03/21 05:11 PM
Re: A long strange trip it's been
[Re: rwatson]
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Sluggish Controls
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I was there. A young lad, working my butt off all summer months and more to get my dream machine Purchased it in England, and then my Mom sent me back to France two weeks later. I then had to spend more cash on a darn PAL / SECAM converter, ha ! Cheers, Slug
"Major Burns isn't saying much of anything, Sir. I think he's formulating the answer..." - Radar - M*A*S*H
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#4567031 - 05/03/21 05:14 PM
Re: A long strange trip it's been
[Re: rwatson]
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PanzerMeyer
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I grew up pretty darn poor for most of my childhood so the first PC I bought with my own money wasn't until 1992 which was my freshman year in college. I'm sure some of you here remember Packard Bell?
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4567059 - 05/03/21 06:51 PM
Re: A long strange trip it's been
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PanzerMeyer
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Anybody remember the old Gateway Computer stores?
Yup, I do. Those only lasted a couple of years. Only Apple can get away with having brick & mortar stores for their electronics and manage to pack them full of people (at least until the pandemic). Even the Microsoft stores that I visited pre-pandemic were usually nearly empty. Maybe at most I'd see 4-5 people in the store.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4567060 - 05/03/21 07:04 PM
Re: A long strange trip it's been
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MarkG
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LOL Mark old school TV there Recycling one more pic, as I still had that TV in my second apartment (I prefer not to replace stuff until it breaks)... It broke in the middle of Desert Storm (early '91), so we quickly replaced it with a 20" JVC which is now the bedroom TV. Sometimes things just keep ticking.
The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in Gives way and suddenly it’s day again The sun is in the east Even though the day is done Two suns in the sunset, hmph Could be the human race is run
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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