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

[Trent Melcher]

I was still using some paper tape here at Offutt in 89,  that was how we
would send Comm messages up to the 'Looking Glass'

Trent

Trent Melcher
Network/System Administrator
Startouch International LTD.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
John Dickson
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:58 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: re: [olug] Am I Old (was Cox High Speed)


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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