First Computers (was Re: [SunRescue] Yay, I don't feel...)
Joshua D. Boyd
rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat Mar 10 12:47:09 CST 2001
My first was a Toshiba T/100 CPM machine. It had a 16 color display and
dual 5 1/4" drives. Then went to a 386sx with 1 meg of ram and a 40 meg
harddrive in 90. The toshiba was sold by my parents, and the 386 was
traded towards a replacement 486sx33 with 4 megs of ram in 94. I still
have that 486, but it is a dx2/66 now, and it has 28 megs or ram (down
from a high of 56). It is sitting waiting for me to configure it as a
router for DSL.
--
Joshua Boyd
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Matthew Haas wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >
> > > my dad's work (I can picture the Sun screensaver to this day). My first
> > > machine was a Commodore 128, I still own it... And about 60 or more other
> > > machines...
> >
> > I started out at age 9 with a TI-99/4A. GOt it 2 months before they
> > quit making them. 8-)
> >
>
> While we're on this trend- what was everyone's first computer? Do you
> still own it?? Still use it?
>
> My very first computer was a Commodore VIC-20... I was too young at the
> time to truly appreciate it... I had a game cartridge of some number/math
> game that I remember playing endlessly.
>
> Then I got an XT that I played with for a few years and then got upgraded
> to a 386SX (kept the CGA monitor from the XT)..
>
> I got bored with 4 colors and a mono PC speaker, so I left and played with
> the 8-bit Atari machines for a couple years (XE Game Machine, then
> upgraded to the 130XE! 128K of RAM!!)... I could really play Star Raiders
> with this setup :) And I still own all my Ataris :)
>
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