[olug] "I remember when..."

[David Walker]

And he lived happily ever after...
> On Thursday 23 April 2009 23:12:19 Dan Linder wrote:
>
> 1983-Timex-Sinclair, later added a thermal printer and the enourmous ram 
> expansion module. Had several cassette recorders with nail polish on the 
> volume control to mark the sweet spot for loading programs.  My first flight 
> simulator. 
>
> 1984-Commodore 64, wrote my first basic program.  My first word processor was 
> a cartridge based program called Quick Brown Fox.     My first dot matrix 
> printer was a Commodore 1525. The letters "g" and "q" didn't have true 
> descenders.  Several of my professors asked me what was wrong with my printer 
> when I turned in papers written on this.   I later got the 1541 floppy drive, 
> what a beast!   Went to my first pirate party.  20 guys in a room swapping 
> games.  
>
> 1988-Got a job with a company running SCO Xenix on an IBM AT with an 8 port 
> Computone board going out to wyse 30's and 60's.  You never forget your first 
> girl or your first Unix.  This company paid $10,000 for a Compaq 386-12 with 
> 12MB of RAM and a 300MB ESDI disk.   It supported 15-20 users via 
> Computone/Wyse.
>
> 1992-Got my first PC, a Packard Bell 286 reclaimed from the junk heap.  No 
> hard drive, but I eventually put a 100 MB hard card in it.  
>
> 1993-attended a meeting of /usr/group/nebraska on the Creighton Campus.  Came 
> home with 20 1.44mb floppy's for a system called "Linux".   Never got it 
> installed on the packard bell. 
>
> Eventually Linux and I meet again with Red Hat 4.     
>
> DT
>
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