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[SagDec15]

We used .RLE files back then... or were we at 1200 by the time .rle's came out? I can't remember that minor detail.

My first TRS80 Model 4 had 2 floppies. I also used the Model I, but never owned one. My first HARD DRIVE was for the Model 4, it larger than the footprint of the TRS80, took up the same space I guess as my monitor andcpu which are here side by side. It was 5, FIVE, FIVE Meg. My XT had 20 Meg I think. My 286 had 80 and the 386 only had 40 Meg. My Gateway here has 60 GIG. We had 40 and 80 MEG and never seemed to run out of room. Close though. Now some graphic files are 80 meg alone! Amazing.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Some of you definitely go back further than I do. I think I got my first computer in 87, and later bought a 2400 modem. I was totally hooked, though, and quickly made up for lost time, teaching myself everything I could.

The first time I saw one personal computer talking to another was at a friend's house. His modem was a 1200. I bought my 2400 a few days later and my life definitely took a different path starting that day. Until then the computer was part toy, part necessity. I'd snowed my way into a computer teaching job (based on my experience as a data-entry/word-processing instructor at the IRS), so I needed the computer so I could try to stay a day ahead of my students.