[olug] Am I Old (was Cox High Speed)

[John Dickson]

In the Marines in 82 we used to call that the green machine. A field computer. All-in-one monitor/cpu in a box. Slightly larger than a microwave. It was better than punch cards or tape (paper tape w/holes no electron theory here).

Bill Brush <bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote ..
> 
> Let's see, I guess it was about 20 years ago I had my first encounter with
> a computer when the company my parents worked for expanded to start selling
> computers.  It was IBM PC (1 floppy, green monochrome monitor).  Then they
> got in a PCjr which was cool for color and a joystick.  When the XT came
> out we thought that was damn cool.  The IBM portable came along with nifty
> internal monitor but no hard drive, but it was still cool.  When my Mom
> quit that company she bought a Panasonic Sr. Partner, which I expect most
> of you have never heard of.  It was a portable (luggable) form-factor like
> the orginal Compaq, or IBM portable, but it had a 20 MB internal HD, and
> a
> built-in thermal printer.  Later I had run-ins with the IBM AT (screaming
> fast), and from then on I think I hit just about every major PC interation
> they had.  Not much experience with Apple hardware or UNIX, (until Linux
> came along with my first encounter about 1995).
> 
> Bill
> 
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