[olug] "I remember when..."

[Christopher White]

Ah Synchronet,

I remember you so fondly!  Such fun times playing those door games.
My first computer that my family bought was a Macintosh LC580 (I
pitched in nearly $200 of my own money from my part time job in school
to get this beast!).  It was an upgrade from the Mac Classic we were
"borrowing" at the time to get onto the local bbs.  When I'd saved
enough, I splurged on a 28.8 modem and later uploaded the 33.6
firmware to it!  Such speeds!!!  And the LC580 had a color screen!!!!!
 Simply amazing!!!

I've owned many machines since then but will always have a fond place
in my heart for that beautiful little Mac!!  It was so much fun to use
and seemed lightning fast compared to it's actual speed of 33 mhz!!!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane,
Chris from Kearney


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Thomas D. Williamson
<twilliam at inebraska.com> wrote:
> My first exposure to computing was through a share from HDR in high
> school, with a phone modem and paper punch tape to "record" the
> programs we were required to write.
>
> I had friends who bought and used the Osborn computers with dual 8"
> floppy drives, so CPM could operate on one and a program could be
> loaded on the other.
>
> My first personal computer was a Sanyo with dual 5 1/2" drives for the
> same purpose as the Osborn.  I believe the processor was an 8086. The
> package came with a dot matrix printer and was about $1400. That was
> the most I've ever spent since then. I was in college and it was used
> for writing papers for the most part. The MS-DOS was modified by Sanyo
> so any upgrades were required through them at an exceptionally high
> price. I stopped using because of that.
>
> My first more standard PC was one I ordered built to my
> specifications. This was at the time the 486SX-16 was being pushed,
> but I went with the 386DX-16 from AMD because it actually processed
> faster than the SX. I later upgraded to a 486DX-16, installed a modem
> and other items before it ran out of it usefulness. I got it with out
> MS-DOS and used DR-DOS instead with Windows 3.1 and 3.11. I worked
> with a MS-DOS Machine with Windows 3.11 at work and found that DR-DOS
> worked better with memory management and cause fewer crashes.
>
> Since then I have continued to stay behind the curve on most equipment
> since I do not have high end demands, and am able to pay less for what
> I need and can use.
>
>
> Tom Williamson
>
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