20 Years?

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I was working for a Radio Shack repair depot back when they were updating their TRS-80s from 4k of memory all of the way to 16k.
Almost enough to record a reloading recipe... .
TRS80 was my second computer, after my Timex Sinclair. We thought the Commodore 64 was the greatest thing ever. No, I forgot, TI 99 was my second, ztrs80 was third.. I was building 286 and 386 clones in high school, about the same time I was learning how to reload 30-30 and 30-06.
 
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I’d be happy with some type of long sleeved t-shirt* I can wear to the range. With a commemorative emblem celebrating the two decade milestone. Have The High Road spelled out down one of the arms.

*I like to conceal my guns in public.
 
Since we're wandering off topic anyway (my first computer was a Rainbow 500), how many guns do you own that are older than you are?

For me the answer is two.

I was born in 1983; I think I own four guns made after the year 2000. I have half a dozen significantly older than my own age. My oldest is a Bannerman Krag made in February, 1899.

Since we're going there, the first computers I ever used (K-5th grade, so 1988-1995) were Apple Mac 1 and 2e, followed by an 8086 IBM, and I think a TRS-80.

The first computer I ever had at home (and got on the Internet with) was an IBM clone I do not exactly remember now, but I recall that it was top-end at the time. 386 architecture, a whopping 66MHz AMD chipset, 16MB single density RAM (which got added to run Papyrus Games NASCAR Racing 2), 16MB SATA HD (the install of Windows 3.1 took up most of the dang thing), and a 14400-baud modem.

I spent many hours on this newfound Internet thingy drooling over 1911s and Browning H-Powers.

(Cue AOL dial-up sound.)
"GOOD-BYE!"
"WHO PICKED UP THE PHONE?!"
 
I spent many hours on this newfound Internet thingy drooling over 1911s and Browning H-Powers.
When I was 14, I spent many hours "drooling" over the Model 70 "Westerner" in the 1962 Winchester-Western catalogs my folks had in their country store/gas station.:D
BTW, I still have a couple of those 1962 catalogs, and I still have the Model 100 (.308 Winchester) Mom and Dad bought for me from the wholesale company that supplied them. I never did get a Model 70 "Westerner" .264 Win Mag. Except for the .270 Winchester I bought and used for a few years back in the '70s, I've pretty much stuck with thirty caliber rifles for deer hunting - just personal preference, not wanting to start any "best caliber for deer" discussion.:thumbup:
 
Many of us learned to reload before the internet from books. I remember building my first computer, a 286-16 that had a radio shack cassette player for a drive and played games on cassette. That being said, I may be in for a knife, depending.
Mine was a Commodore Vic 20, with aforementioned tape drive. State of the art.
 
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