[olug] "I remember when..."

[Dan Linder]

(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..?"

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