James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Mon, March 9, 2015 17:36, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Francis Gerund wrote: >> <snip> >>> And FWIW, I do like, and use the CLI all the time. That's how I >>> learned using MS-DOS 3.2 on a 386sx box with 360k floppy drives. And 512k >>> ram - what luxury! >>> >>> : ) >> >> You leaned on a 386 with (2?) floppy drives? I had to make do >> with DOS 3.0 on an 8088 w/ 2 floppy drives... and let me tell >> you how much fun it was to compile (I kid you not) basica, esp. >> with an encrypted library.... >> > <4yorkshiremen> > Floppy drives? Floppy drives! Wot lukxxxuuury! We woul'da killed for > floppy drives. I remmebr when dad brought hoom papirr punch tape for > the first time. And we had needles to program it widt. . . . > </4yorkshiremen> Oh, well, if you're going to what's at home, I still fondly remember my CoCo (RadShack Color Computer), and IIRC, there was a way to plug in a cassette recorder, and the b'day present that my ex and a friend did, voiding the warranty, doubled the memory to 32k.... mark "school, of course, was punch cards for the time-shared 370"