[olug] "I remember when..."

[Aric Aasgaard]

Sounds like a Osborne or Compaq luggable?
http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html
http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Jordan Fox
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 8:43 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] "I remember when..."

Apple ][e at school and ][gs at home - we had two floppy drives, 5 1/4 and 3
1/2!  Then moved to the 486 and then pentium with win95 16mb RAM and 1.6GB
HDD.  Neither was much to talk about at the time because they were hand me
downs from my dad's business and were already several years old when we got
them.  First programming language was logo ;)  I, humbly, can't remember
what "my" first computer was... it was one of the original "portable"
computers.  It was about the size of a desktop.  My dad found it somewhere
from one of his friends and I asked for it.  Monochrome green crt, the
keyboard snapped onto the front to cover the crt, had two floppies, I'm not
sure what OS.  I never really did much with it because it was probably 10
years old, we already had the pentium, and I didn't know what OS it had and
was too busy at the time to learn much about it.  In 1999, I got a dell
laptop: pII 366, with 192MB RAM and 14 GB HDD for college- awesome.  And it
only cost 3 grand from the refurbished site!

Jordan

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:15, John Hobbs <john at velvetcache.org> wrote:
> >> I'm in the younger crowd I guess.  First computer was a clunky green
> Acer
> >> Aspire with Win 95.  They had an "even friendlier" interface that sat
on
> >> top
> >> of the win 95 desktop and sloooowed everything down. I didn't love it
> so, I
> >> don't really remember it :-)
> >>
> >> - John Hobbs
> >
> >
> > You mean "MS-Bob"?
> >
>
> No, Bob was the 3.1 days, IIRC.  I think what he's talking to was
> Acer's "custom" UI for Windows back around 95-96.  My gf, now wife,
> bought one and it SUCKED.  OMG it was horrible.
>
> My first computer that I worked with was an IBM PC, then the XT, PC
> jr, then the PC "portable."  My Mom quit the job where they had those,
> and bought a Panasonic Sr. Partner because it had a 20 MB HD and the
> PC's were only 10 at the time.  That old tank lasted me a good 8-9
> years.  I think it got "borrowed" from my Mom and never returned.  Ah
> well, it probably still works for someone.  Those old TTL chips were
> nothing if not sturdy.
>
> http://www.vintage-computer.com/panasonicsr.shtml
>
> Bill
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