From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 7 22: 4: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B7037B402 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:04:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ubik.demon.co.uk ([194.222.125.229]) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 16NpMj-000O1P-0Y; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 06:04:06 +0000 Message-ID: <4Rb5GNArqoO8IwmC@ubik.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 05:59:07 +0000 To: Danny Horne Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Anthony Naggs Subject: Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981! References: <200201072128.g07LSK655245@apollo.backplane.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , Danny Horne writes >Oooohh!! Those model numbers bring back memories!! > >I remember drooling over the first Commodore Pet (the one with the >rectangular keyboard) in one of the many computer shops that were springing >up at the time. When my school bought its 3016 (1980?) it was a revelation. I had seen the big orange ICL mainframe where my dad worked, a room full of big cabinets and whirring disks & tapes, but this was a computer on a desk! >If anyone's interested, I've got a 2nd edition of Nick Hampshire's 'The Pet >Revealed' That, and Zaks' book on programming the 6502, certainly fuelled my enthusiasm and many hours with a switch connected to the NMI line and the MLM. I'm still fascinated by computer schematics, and dabbling with the hardware. ;-) Thankfully Google is missing many of my early postings. Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message