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I started with a CoCo. In 1984 I bit the bullet and bought an IBM pc with the green monitor and dual 360k disk drives. Cost me $3000+ bucks, back when it was worth $3000.

James Lampert wrote:
John Earl wrote:
. . . If a phone call was received, the old big black telephone
would ring and emit enough of a magnetic discharge to scramble the data
on the diskette.

I've been paranoid about magnets since the days when my old TRS-80 Mod.I was still in service.

Ye vish! That's more than half my life!


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