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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Oh I don't think age had much to do with it, I'm only mid 40s and I remember how expensive those cards were (and I look sadly upon the fact that we recycle them sometimes in Computer
Recycling). Still remember my first PC, it was an 8088 clone running a NEC V20 chip at a whopping 10MHz (no Linux there). I don't recall the motherboard manufacturer but remember that it had 640kb RAM and a 42MB hard drive (which seemed very big at the time).
When I later jumped a generation and bought a 386 with 2MB RAM I tried running a multi-line bulletin board system using DesqView for the task switching, but whenever someone would call in on one line, the other would crash (I needed more RAM). Eventually I
got things straightened out when I bought a 486 with 16MB RAM and OS/2 to do the multi-line processing, but by that time the Internet was making a mark and fewer people were calling BBS's.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 07, 2013 8:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> KWLUG discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kwlug-disc] New projector<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Bob's just a young lad.. I can remember my amazement at the Hercules Graphics card, which allowed me to emulate CGA onto a monochrome screen... Leisure Suit Larry never looked so good!
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 7 November 2013 02:06, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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1024x768 matches the aspect ratio of the screen, and the "low"<br>
resolution should make text in demonstrations appear bigger. So, seems<br>
like a win to me.<br>
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--Bob, who remembers being happy to get four colours on his 640x480<br>
monitor...<br>
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On 13-11-07 01:15 AM, Paul Nijjar wrote:<br>
> At this month's meeting we tried a new projector. This projector was<br>
> donated to The Working Centre, and we would like to keep it onsite so<br>
> that I do not have to carry a projector back and forth between<br>
> buildings.<br>
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> Do you think the new projector is "good enough" for our meetings? I<br>
> find the projector nice and bright, but the resolution is not so good<br>
> (max 1024x768, which may be why it was donated).<br>
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> Comments are welcome.<br>
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> - Paul<br>
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