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    Some of my first Word essays may still be on the boy's room wall at grade school......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    Some of my first Word essays may still be on the boy's room wall at grade school......Ben
    From what I understand some of your better work was in the stalls at Houston Hobby..........
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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    From what I understand some of your better work was in the stalls at Houston Hobby..........
    By that time I was probably in my third year of the 4th grade, just before I got my draft notice......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    By that time I was probably in my third year of the 4th grade, just before I got my draft notice......Ben
    Nothing like higher education.

    To be serious for a moment my first computer was a Quantex with a Pentium 100 processor. I thought the world had been opened for me. I danced to the tune of the AOL dial in chime. Who would have ever thought that my phone today is thousands upon thousands of times more powerful that that first unit which by the way cost 1800.00.
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    I forget the specs on my first one, but I remember paying about $4K to have it built......Ben
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    I remember getting one (can’t recall what brand) back in the late 80’s and getting my son to hook me up on this thing they called the “internet.” I instantly recognized that this was the biggest thing in my lifetime, and discussed with my techno literate son how we could make a buck out of the coming revolution. My financial acumen was/is so acute that I never figured out how to profit a single dime out of the remarkable innovation, but sure have flushed out a fortune through it and accessing it.
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    My first, a Commodore in the early 80's. About the only thing I ever did on it was play chess. It was so slow that at the highest level I could come in, make a play and go back to mowing for a few more laps--and then repeat
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    Mine was a Commodore 64 somewhere around 1983. I still have it in the attic where it has been stored for the past 32 years. I'll be digging it out soon in preparation for moving. I'll see if it still works.
    The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke

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    Mine was a 64 as well. I have to confess I no longer have it
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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