[olug] "I remember when..."

[Abraham Serafino]

Heh, I'm still young... my first PC was a 386SX in 1997 that my dad handed
down when he bought a Pentium. He bought the 386 in 1991 for $1300, and
later he upgraded it to 4MB of memory and a color minitor.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:22 AM, <woodsjay at cox.net> wrote:

> I remember ordering the Altair 8800 with 8 K of memory in February 1975
> ($1200). I bought a Teletype model 35 ASR ($1000) so that I could have
> external (paper tape) memory. The bootstrap loader was loaded in from the
> front panel with switches (35 bytes). It was just enough to read Intel hex
> format binaries from the paper tape. The first program available was an
> assembler from the Bay Area Computer Club. The second program I wrote to
> mimic the Wylber text editor that ran on an IBM 360/67 Orvyl Timesharing
> system.
>
> ---- Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I remember that Apple [[c. No HDD, 5.25" floppy drive, monochrome
> > green screen that developed vsync issues(*sniff*), and the ugly sound
> > that it made when you (re)booted it without a floppy disk(it couldn't
> > find an OS). "Please take the disk out, turn over, and reinsert to
> > save your data." That AppleSoft BASIC is probably the most bug-free
> > "OS" that I can remember.
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 23:27, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net> wrote:
> > > First computer we as TRS-80 Model 1 with 32k expansion pack and worn
> > > drive (cassette, write once, read never).  Actually got rid of it last
> > > year.  Had original receipts and I paid over $1000 for the dot matrix
> > > line print that came with it.  Second machine was an Apple IIc witch I
> > > only paid $800 for it.  If you are looking for a blast from the past,
> > > check out Bryan Lunduke (BryanLAS)'s ustream feed
> > > (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bryanlunduke) he is running old
> computer
> > > chronicles when not broadcasting live.
> > >
> > >    Sam Tetherow
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >>
> > >>> 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..?"
> > >>
> > >> --- ---
> > >> "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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Abraham Serafino
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