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Re: Rounded corners

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by: FromTheRafters - Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:29 UTC

Bill presented the following explanation :
> On 3/14/2022 4:41 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
>> On 3/14/22 10:34, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> I started with a 386SX 16MHz in 1991, before that a ZX Spectrum at 1982.
>>> I used 286s and BBCs at school.
>>
>> My first computer (in 1982) was a Commodore VIC-20.
>>
>> My first "IBM PC compatible" (in 1989) had an 8MHz NEC V20 CPU (8088
>> compatible with extra instructions), 256K RAM (soon upgraded to 640K), and
>> a 30MB RLL hard drive (this you COULD do a low-level format on).
>>
>
> My first computer, which I connected to with a dumb terminal, was probably an
> IBM 360. A number of years later, I connected to an onsite CDC (Control Data
> Corporation)-172. IIRC, it had an expensive 10MB hard drive. I do remember
> that the drive (head) "crashed" often enough to aggravate everyone
> concerned--it was no fun to debug a program, then go back the next day and
> re-do everything. Yes, we learned to "back stuff up", but I'm just sayin'...
> Graphics? What are graphics?

ASCII art Playboy centerfolds from the 'banner' program.

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