Gene Heskett said: > On Monday 03 May 2004 14:23, Edward Croft wrote: >>On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:19, Michael Gargiullo wrote: >>> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:08, John Nichel wrote: >>> <snip> >>> >>> > Hmmmm....would the Atari 400 with BASIC cartridge that I learned to >>> program on be considered a 'hippie o/s'? ;) >>> >>> I had one of those... With the membrain keyboard... I had to >>> upgrade though when the Atari 800 XL came out :) >> >>Gee, and I started programming on a VIC 20 with a tape drive. Shall, >> we resurrect the Commodore / Atari wars? :-P >> > Naw, cause then we'ed have to admit the coco was the better machine. What was wrong with the TRS-80 CoCo 2? It was my first computer. I remember upgrading it to 64K of memory, and being amused by the weird things I could do to the operating system since the processor could only handle 32K at a time. And there was a lot of good support for it; at least two thick full-color magazines, if I recall. -- Sláinte, Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K) http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com/catseyeview "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery
