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How old are you, what iphone do you have and do you pay your own phone bill
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Look at my username - that's a hint. Also - first computer class in high school was learning how to hardwire (look it up young'uns) mainframes. 64K? How about 8 hardwire connections to make one byte? First computer was an Osborne 1. I pay $80USD/mo, 4S.
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The Osborne 1 was not a laptop--it was portable, but it weighed 25 pounds. It had no internal battery, so you had to plug it in.
The CPU was a Zilog Z-80, a very popular 8-bit microprocessor, running at 4 MHz.
The operating system was CP/M 2.2, the ancestor of MS-DOS.
It has 64 kbytes of dynamic RAM, which was automatically refreshed by the CPU.
Storage was two single-sided, single-density, 5¼-inch floppy disk drives.
The display was a 5-inch monochrome CRT, capable of 52 characters × 24 lines.
Application software bundled with the machine included dBase II, WordStar, SuperCalc and MBASIC (a CP/M version of Microsoft BASIC, Microsoft's first product).
The biggest drawback of the machine was the small amount of RAM.
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The Osborne 1 was not a laptop--it was portable, but it weighed 25 pounds. It had no internal battery, so you had to plug it in.
The CPU was a Zilog Z-80, a very popular 8-bit microprocessor, running at 4 MHz.
The operating system was CP/M 2.2, the ancestor of MS-DOS.
It has 64 kbytes of dynamic RAM, which was automatically refreshed by the CPU.
Storage was two single-sided, single-density, 5¼-inch floppy disk drives.
The display was a 5-inch monochrome CRT, capable of 52 characters × 24 lines.
Application software bundled with the machine included dBase II, WordStar, SuperCalc and MBASIC (a CP/M version of Microsoft BASIC, Microsoft's first product).
The biggest drawback of the machine was the small amount of RAM.
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You're right it's not the law but at the age of 21 you're an adult and should pay your own freakin cell bill. I would be embarrassed to have my parents pay my cell bill at the age of 20/21. Guess I just come from a different time when you worked and paid for the luxury items in your life when you became an adult (turned 18). But hey, if some want to mooch off their parents no sweat off my sack.
27 have a 64gb verizon iPhone 5 white, 64gb iPhone 4 s white, two lines (mine and my wife's) and a iPad 64gb. $220 with a shared everything 20gb plan.
Oh and I pay it.
Oh and I pay it.
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