This is for Bill Gates

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Sorry you are right Pookie. At my age memory was the 2nd thing to go, and I
cant remember the 1st thing.
 
Moby Dick was a minnow when I was born.

Richard Urban said:
Finally found someone older than me! (-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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Jerry P said:
Thanks Bill. Lets travel back to the mid 70's and DOS 1.0, when memory was
running about $28.00 a MB. When you wrote your own programs in DOS and
self taught C+ on a Radio Shack Mod 3 and Mod 4, and the famous Coco (4 MB
which we expanded to 16 MB). I don't want to leave out my first modem
which was 150 baud. And march up to Windows 95. Now we have plug & play.
But for the life of me,what was the original name to what we now call
Windows. And if you think its ruff now, better sell your computers!
Jerry P
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Amongst your errors you have typed MB instead of KB.

ss.
 
Jerry P said:
Nope I said MB and meant MB. you could buy them in 128 or 256 or 512 or 1
MB <- 1981.
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On what planet?

The TRS-80 never had 16MB of RAM, and a megabyte of RAM would have cost a
hell of a lot more than $28 in the mid-70's.

ss.
 
Correct you are. I remember getting a 2 meg upgrade in 1993 that cost over
$300.00.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
What are you smoking?

Memory "never" cost $28.00 a meg in the 1970's. I don't even think that 1
meg sticks or chips (or any combination that equaled 1 meg) existed in the
1970's.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Jerry P said:
Thanks Bill. Lets travel back to the mid 70's and DOS 1.0, when memory was
running about $28.00 a MB. When you wrote your own programs in DOS and
self taught C+ on a Radio Shack Mod 3 and Mod 4, and the famous Coco (4 MB
which we expanded to 16 MB).
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Nope. The CoCo had 4KB (not MB) or RAM and could be expanded to 16KB.
Later that changed to 32KB in CoCo 1 then 64KB in the CoCo 2 and 128KB or
512KB in the CoCo 3. You're off by an order of magnitude. In 1979, I
bought
a 16K RAM expansion kit for my Model I Expansion Interface which cost
$239.00 US.

Tom Lake
 
What are you smoking?

Memory "never" cost $28.00 a meg in the 1970's. I don't even think that 1
meg sticks or chips (or any combination that equaled 1 meg) existed in the
1970's.
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I paid $120 for 2K of RAM sometime in the early 70's.

Sure glad it got cheaper. At that rate, 1 megabyte of RAM would cost
$60,000.
 
Yep!

Jerry P. is sure onto something good. Perhaps he would like to share with
us. (-;

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
So my memory bad, wait until you're my age....It was a nice walk down memory
lane, now some want to make personal attacks, well go for it.
Jerry
 
Maybe your memory walked down the lane before you!

You just gave totally false information, is all. And when someone pointed it
out to you, well..................... at that point drop it.

And yes, I am also approaching "that" age.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Sorry Richard if I got short with you. I talked to a close , if his memory
is right he said it was about 250.00 for 512kb in the late 70"s early 80's.
Well I was in my 40's back then. P.S. I enjoy reading your posts here and
others from MS.
Jerry
 
Thier was no C+.
C Came first and then C++, It came by way of a very obscure insider joke.
it was "C++" or for the non programmers amongst us the ++ operator
increments and assigns a variable holding a numeric type variable. so if
C
holds a value of 1 *(version one) then C++ becomes 1 plus 1. :)
the next iteration in other words.
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It should have became ++C (more efficient!!!)

http://magnetiq.com/2006/08/26/opt-for-pre-incrementing-iterators/
 
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