pirating (was: "Market" for old macs?)

[Scott Stevens]

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:51:46 -0600
Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net> wrote:

> Jim Leonard wrote:
> 
> ...
> > When you're 16 and broke (I had to go to a friend's house to
> > use a 1200  baud modem when his Dad was out of the house -- "5
> > miles, uphill, both  ways!"), you pirate.  
> 
> Jim,
> 
> You misspelled a few of words there:
> 
> 	"you're"     --> "I was"
> 	"you pirate" --> "I pirated"
> 
> It is an easy mistake to make because spell checkers won't catch
> it.  Something  that was undoubtedly true got needlessly turned
> into a provably false statement.
> 
> What did I do when I was 16, broken, and smitten with computers?
>  I had a spiral 
> bound notebook where I wrote out BASIC programs, then rewrote
> them, and rewrote  them.  Probably 1/3 of what I wrote ever got
> typed into a computer, partly  because the "computer lab" was
> available to me for about 45 minutes of "face  time" with the
> computer per week.  I wish I still had those notebooks to see 
> what I was up to back then (1978-1980).
> 

I coped by buying a Programmable Calculator.  It was hopeless that
I would ever be able to afford a real computer (circia. 1977). 
And I couldn't afford an HP.  I got a Texas Instruments SR-56
(couldn't even afford an SR-52).  Any program you entered into it
disappeared when you turned it off.  But it met my needs for
awhile.

>