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Subject:    [gentoo-user] Re: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: Floppy support question)
From:       Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () arcor ! de>
Date:       2012-01-30 5:50:58
Message-ID: jg5b47$lpq$1 () dough ! gmane ! org
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On 01/30/2012 05:48 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com
> <mailto:mikemol@gmail.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info
> <mailto:pandu@poluan.info>> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop
> horizontal
>  > > all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a front-panel
> (7-segment
>  > > LED)  display between "4.77" and "8.00"
>  > >
>  > > And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25")...
>  > >
>  > > And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite...
>  > >
>  > > As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood...
>  >
>  > PC, XT or AT?
>  >
>  > Fastest system I ever used what dropped down to 4.77MHz was a 33MHz 386..
>  >
>
> Not sure...
>
> It was a no-name clone... I think it's 8086...

The first machine to ever make me go "ooh, shiny" was an Amiga 500 back 
when it came out.  Shiniest thing I ever saw ;-)


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