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Aug 26, 2022·edited Aug 26, 2022Liked by Paul Lefebvre

I lived in walking distance of Toad Computers when I was in high school, and spent a lot of time in the shop with Dave and Sam.

I previously bought a MegaST4 in a Gaithersburg, MD store for $2700 in 1987 and a 100MB (two 50MB HDs in an ICD external SCSI enclosure) along with a color and mono monitor. That said, Dave and Sam later installed an internal 100MB hard drive inside my ST with an internal ICD SCSI adapter, upgraded me to Rainbow TOS, and installed a 16MHz upgrade with an external cache toggle switch (which made my ST run faster).

I still have my computer exactly as it was when I graduated college in 94. WordPerfect, PageStream, LDW Power, an alternate NeoDesk Desktop, terminal emulation software, etc. I ran a BBS with a 2400 baud modem and ExpressBBS for a time in 87-88. I got so much use out of this computer (and I was totally into the Atari 8-bit scene from 83-87 before that).

I also have the software MagicSac (couldn’t afford the hardware) that loads into memory to run MacOS and apps like Adobe Illustrator.

Dave (lived in Severna Park) and Sam (lived in Arnold) were a great resource and I’m glad they opened that store.

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