[olug] "I remember when..."

[Dan Staehr]

The first computer I used was a Commodore..and later the Commodore 64. 
Used it to run a weather program at the radio station I worked at.

Dan Staehr

Dan Linder wrote:
> (I'll change the subject to avoid hijacking the Ubuntu thread.)
>
> Will Langford wrote:
>   
>>> Heck I even appreciate the fact that Bill Gates/Microsoft made cheap
>>> hardware a reality.  I remember spending $5K+ for my first machines in
>>> the pre win95 days.
>>>       
>
> Sam Tetherow wrote:
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>> 89 was my first PC
>>     
>
> Hmmm, does my Timex Sinclair 1000 count as a "PC"? ;-)  That was around 83.
>
> If you need the "Intel Inside", how about my "DEC Rainbow 100A" (with both a
> Z80 for CPM, and an 8088 for MS-DOS) - that was about 1984 (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100).  (And my dad cringed at the
> $5,000 price tag...but we did get it used and it came with a 5MB HDD!)
>
> Dan "Where's my cane and hearing aid batteries..?"
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