The Hogs of Entropy 0454

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The Hogs of Entropy

 · 5 years ago

  

 
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  #########: ##:::: ##: ######::: ZIEGO VUANTAR SHALL BE MUCH VICTORIOUS!  !! 
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        I like antique crap... but updated antique crap.  I once saw a 
 193X Ford coupe.  It was all decked out with electronic dash, tons of 
 power goodies.  I'd take it, put a killer stereo in it, and drive that 
 fucker every day.  I had plans for that console stereo I had, too.  I 
 wanted to seal the speakers, add a cd player and dual cassette wells. 
 I like the way console stereos look.  So that brings me my computers. 

        I got my first computer as a hand-me-down from my dad in the fall 
 of '96.  It's a 1987 Macintosh Classic II with 4 megs of ram, monochrome 
 CRT, and a 40 meg hard drive that my sister bought new for over $2000. 
 I used this computer as my main computer until I bought my lap top this 
 fall.  I even used it online with a 2400 baud modem that I got last 
 spring.  It's powered by Motorola's 68040 chip which is not too bad 
 considering it's the last SISC (non-PowerMac) chip put in Macs or their 
 clones.  I even had an ImageWriter II printer for it that I found at 
 Goodwill for $2.50!! Up until the RISC native programs became the Mac 
 standard, the only software limitation I had was the lack of color 
 options...two color mode was all I had when 16 color greyscale would have 
 ran most anything I wanted. 

        Goodwill is a great store for me.  Not only did I find my console 
 stereo and my printer for $2.50, but lots of other useless crap.  Another 
 favorite of mine is St. Vincent DePaul, aka Vinnie's.  Vinnie's has two 
 Dubuqueland locations, downtown on Main Street and, what I call "Vinnie's 
 West", near our "suburb" Asbury.  It was this second location that I 
 found my Apple //e.  It came with Apple DOS floppies, a whole meg of ram, 
 and the infamous Apple SuperSerial card.  For an extra $5 I even got a 
 color monitor!  I'm unable to find any software to get my Apple online, 
 so I looked around for Apple //gs, but they're still popular, thus 
 overly-expensive. 

        My newest toy is a TRS-80 color.  I need to find some other 
 hardware and software for it, otherwise it's little more than an 
 over-sized keyboard. 

        Well, I guess I've bored you all enough for one t-file, so I 
 guess I'll be going.  But, remember kids, ya gotta catch 'em all!! 

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 !! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS!  HOE #454, WRITTEN BY: M4D 3LF - 1/21/99 !!