[olug] "I remember when..."

Tue Apr 28 20:02:35 UTC 2009

I had an Old Epson XT when I was very young and don't remember a ton about
it, except that it ran PFS First Choice on top of DOS and my father paid I
think $6 a month to get us onto the General Electric GEnie BBS..  2.4kbps
and 64k (I'm a little fuzzy on that) was all I needed.

I don't think they could pry me off of of it until i was a Teenager.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Jordan Fox <vmifox at gmail.com> wrote:

> aha, It was the compaq... from 1982, I didn't have the thing until 95 or
> 96....
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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> petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace
> of
> God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds
> in
> Christ Jesus."  Phil 4:6-7
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-Todd