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I knew they'd be cool again someday!

Below is from another mailing list I get. 

So now the old stuff is "cool" - what a fun idea.

We still use the PoqetPC when we travel to job sites or library research
work. One of the best keyboards around and one of the poorest excuses
for a display - makes for a fun combo.

John Oram
Sacramento, CA
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OK, enough of this drivel from all you kids with your fancy 286en with 640KB
memory, hard drives and 3.5" floppies. Let's get back to the COOL
Surv-Pre-PC stuff, when you could tell how much memory was in a system by
the weight, when a box of 10 diskettes might be all you'd ever need, and
when you propped the lid of your computer open like an old Dodge pickup!

A forwarded message from the VintagePC list that might strike a chord with
some here...

- Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Support Staff" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vintagepc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:12 PM
Subject: [VintagePC] Web sites offer vintage tech gifts for geeks


> MP3 players, personal digital assistants and digital cameras continue to
be
> popular holidays gifts for the digerati. But a 20-year-old PC with no hard
> drive, no CD-ROM drive, and only 64KB of memory? Now that's a really cool
> gift.
>
> In recent years vintage computers such as the 1982 KayPro II described
above
> have been growing in popularity among technology fans and collectors. Web
> sites, newsgroups, and mailing lists, including the Obsolete Computer
Museum
> and the Classic Computers Mailing List pay homage to obsolete, obscure,
and
> discarded PCs.
>
> For the complete story - click on
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/20/geek.gifts.idg/index.html

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