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Re: RAIN 02/03: Weekly Update 02/01 Part 2



I remember the TRS-80.  We used to call it the "Trash-80" when it was new.


Monte Herridge


> In a message dated and transmitted 2/3/02 4:01:53 PM, PAKURILECZ@AOL.COM
made
> note:
>
> <<
>
> Seattle Times 02/01/02
>
> Stroll down Memory Lane to the time of ancient laptops
>
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestlife/134398154_erik01.html
>
>
> by Erik Lacitis
>
> The TRS-80 wasn't beautiful, but (sometimes) got the job done.
>
> Once again, I was reminded that we live in a warp-speed age. It happened
when
>
> a reader was incredulous at my writing that, in 1988, I was using a
laptop.
>
> She couldn't believe that there were laptops around back then, because,
you
>
> know, ancient history is the first "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" episode in
>
> March of 1997.
>
> A few decades ago, parents bored their kids by telling them about
shoveling
>
> snow out there on some remote farm in Minnesota.
>

>

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