[olug] "I remember when..."

[David Walker]

I had the Commodore Vic 20 at school and ended up with a Commodore 128
at home.   Later I had Amiga 500, 600, and 3000.  I do miss them but not
enough to fire up UAE.

Dan Staehr wrote:
> 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
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> Dan Linder wrote:
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>> (I'll change the subject to avoid hijacking the Ubuntu thread.)
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>> Will Langford wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>> Sam Tetherow wrote:
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>>> 89 was my first PC
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>>>       
>> 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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>> "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Who can watch the watchmen?) -- from the
>> Satires of Juvenal
>> "I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them." -- Isaac Asimov (Author)
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