Posted by Steve on 11/17/05 23:08

In article <pan.2005.11.17.20.22.06.539983@example.invalid>,
jeffrey@example.invalid (JDS) wrote:

> *Subject:* Re: Should I call her? Reply ASAP
> *From:* JDS <jeffrey@example.invalid>
> *Date:* Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:22:06 -0500
>
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:03:00 +0000, Steve wrote:
>
> > :-) the year I left school, they bought a Commodore PET !!!
> >
> > Steve
>
> I was in fifth grade when PETs were relatively common. I even
> remember the
> "chiclet" keys (which they upgraded in later versions, IIRC).
>
> So that makes you, hmm, maybe 6-10 years older than me? hmmmmm
>
Sounds about right, I left high school in '78 :-O

It was mostly BASIC then, before the ZX80 etc it was either a PET or a
Tandy. If you wanted anything fancier/faster, you went to assembler or
scrounged some time on a machine running a compiler.

OMG I really am turning into a crusty old geek !

To bring it back on topic, I suppose computer dating then was fancying
the one girl in the computer club, she might not have been pretty, but
she seemed to know more than you about computers...!

- Steve

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