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Re: EEP!



It was open stage night in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, when
Eliyahu Rooff stepped up to the microphone and muttered: 

> The worst part is realizing that I spent more on my Commodore 64
> ($600), the tape drive ($69) and the 300-baud modem ($79) than I
> did on my current Dell computer with a 2.4 GHz P-4, 264 MB of
> RAM, and a flat-panel monitor. Of course the C-64 did have a
> couple advantages -- the OS was hard-wired into it, so there was
> no wait for bootup and no chance of the files being corrupted,
> and the CPU was in the keyboard, reducing the space it needed.

Lord, yes. My parents hocked their highschool class rings to buy me 
the C-64.

But if you're looking to save space - I have seen a full blown PC 
built in the space of a keyboard - CD and modem included. 

-- 
Derek

Never be afraid to share your dreams with the world.
Because there's nothing the world loves more than
the taste of really sweet dreams.




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