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>>>>>How about this: All pre Win98/2000 PC's will only accept programs generated from punch cards set to the hard drive via the serial port.:-)
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>>>>That would suck, especially cause the only stack of punchcards I have got knocked over, and they are way out of order!!
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>>>Sounds like a perfect program to run under Win95.:-)
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>>Actually, I could put all my antiques together for it. I have an old TI machine (TI-80?? can't remember right now), a cassette tape drive, a 1200 baud acoustic modem. I could really get rockin here!!
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>Wow! 1200 baud! What I wouldn't have given for one of those. Mine was 300. An Atari system (and I still have it all, including modem, two disk drives, and a cassette drive).

George;

How about a "Kansas City" Tape Drive? Now that was a tape drive! It only took 15 minutes to load a sub set of Basic. Who was it that put Basic on a CPM board? Some drop out from Harvard? Darn thing would boot and have Basic ready to go. No waiting - gee - that is no fun!

Tom