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List:       opensim-users
Subject:    [Opensim-users] Old computers - was Re: Shortcut Creation	Drive-Letter Auto- Assignment?
From:       jjustincc () googlemail ! com (Justin Clark-Casey)
Date:       2010-02-25 17:46:11
Message-ID: 4B86B763.20807 () googlemail ! com
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Seriously, this is completely offtopic now.

Please could you keep the conversation on this list related to OpenSim user issues.  \
Thanks.

Karen Palen wrote:
> Heh heh - young upstart LOL
> 
> I started on a brand new IBM 1620 in 1964! It was an option for my "Calculators in \
> Engineering" course. 
> Later I headed the project to put together one of the first "personal computers in \
> 1972-1974. Well *I* think it WAS the very first - I just can't prove it! 
> http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/mod8/index.htm
> 
> The one I was able to bring home for my kids to play on had a wirewrap backplane \
> though, not the nice neat motherboard shown in the web site and York U museum. :-) 
> It could play a mean game of Tic-Tac-Toe but not a lot else. We sure tried though \
> :-) 
> I had designed several of the MIL chips for the system earlier, this was actually \
> seen as a way to sell those ICs. No one would believe that there was a market for \
> these "toy" computers! 
> Karen
> 
> --- On Thu, 2/25/10, John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Shortcut Creation Drive-Letter Auto- Assignment?
> > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> > Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 10:09 AM
> > You know back when I first started to work
> > with computers by building my first one in 1978, I never
> > thought I would see the day of 3D.. I am glad I finally
> > did.. :-)
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:56 AM,
> > Karen Palen <karen_palen at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > No, just
> > that MS has made improvements over the years LOL
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > With a system running a single well known App and talking
> > only to about a dozen trusted web sites (banks, stock
> > brokers etc.) there is little need for advanced security.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I DO use Firefox as the browser though :-)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Karen
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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