Farewell - saying goodbye to the famous folks we lost in 2008

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Solitary said:
I had a radioshack computer! I had to buy a separate cassette tape recorder to plug into it, or lose everything every time I turned it off.

But at the time it was the coolest thing we had ever seen. Then I graduated to an Apple IIC clone. That gave me 256k of blazing memory and a 5.5" floppy disk drive.
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yeah, I went from the PET to the Commodore 64, then progressed over the years.

Amazing how far technology has come since the late 70's. I remember the old brick looking cell phones. Everyone trying to figure out why ANYONE would want one of those things.
 
Superfreak said:
yeah, I went from the PET to the Commodore 64, then progressed over the years.

Amazing how far technology has come since the late 70's. I remember the old brick looking cell phones. Everyone trying to figure out why ANYONE would want one of those things.
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I used to service the origional car phones.
Remember when we did not have touch tone phones.
 
I remember my first harddrive as well. It was 40mb. I couldn't understand why anyone would spend more money for the 60mb giants. What could you possibly need 60mbs of storage for?
 
Solitary said:
I remember my first harddrive as well. It was 40mb. I couldn't understand why anyone would spend more money for the 60mb giants. What could you possibly need 60mbs of storage for?
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the first hard drive I worked on had a 12 inch platter and held 1 whole megabyte of info. It went with an HP commercial minicomputer that had a whole 32k of magnetic core ram.


Programmers were not so sloppy back then though.
 
Solitary said:
I remember my first harddrive as well. It was 40mb. I couldn't understand why anyone would spend more money for the 60mb giants. What could you possibly need 60mbs of storage for?
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yeah... now I have my 8 gig ipod nano... trying to figure out how soon I will need more space.
 
Solitary said:
Good name for him. I know you respect him for his political activism. But there was no one cooler in the music world.
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Coolness was a genius.

I always compared him to Marvin. Although far less troubled than Marvin, they both had that same presence about them.

If you've never heard Isaac sing "The Windows of the World" (Live at the Sahara Tahoe) .. google it and download it .. better still buy the CD.
 
blackascoal said:
Coolness was a genius.

I always compared him to Marvin. Although far less troubled than Marvin, they both had that same presence about them.

If you've never heard Isaac sing "The Windows of the World" (Live at the Sahara Tahoe) .. google it and download it .. better still buy the CD.
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That was amazing. Thanks for sending me after that one.

He had a voice that was pure delight.
 
Solitary said:
That was amazing. Thanks for sending me after that one.

He had a voice that was pure delight.
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It's the song I hear in my head during times of reflection. It asks what you and I can do. If you close you eyes and listen to it .. it's very powerful.

All the voices are perfect ,, the highs of the female voices contrasting in perfect harmony with the deep resonance of Coolness.

The instrumentation is beautiful.

As a someone who appreciates his work, you need that whole CD, "Live at the Sahara Tahoe."
 
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