Advocacy versus alientation (was Re: [ale] Re:)

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 06:07, Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > You should see my NEC Starlett laptop. 32k ram, 16k of rom, 300 baud
> > modem built in, wordstar, a database, comm program and spreadsheet
> > running on cpm. External data storage is with a cassette recorder. It
> > worked until batteries were left in it until they leaked. 
> 
> I'll need to bring my 3B300 to an ALE meeting, hey maybe to LISA!  8 meg 
> of ram, 2 75 meg hard drives.  Need I say more?

Hard drives? We don't need no steenking hard drives! My Starlette kept
everything in RAM with a trickle current from the 4 C batteries. I wish
I could pull the keyboard off and use it for something else (too much
guilt) as it was a very nice feeling keyboard.
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