> From: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is > the oldest > computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which > I've mentioned > before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might > beat me. :-)
Let's see... In 1978, I was introduced to computers while at my older brother's graduation from Vanderbilt University. The night before graduation we went to the computer lab and played "Adventure" until 3 a.m. using up some computer time he had accumulated from a statistics class. I was hooked! But I'm not sure that actually counts. I learned to program on TRS-80 Model 3 computers in my high school (complete with tape cassette recorder for saving programs!). That would have been 1980 (81?) or so. The first computer I owned was a Commodore 64. (Christmas 1981, I believe.) It was about a half year later that I actually bought a disk drive for it. All of 180 K, I believe, and was about as big as the C64 itself (and much, MUCH heavier). I also bought a Timex Sinclair at a garage sale somewhere around that time but never could get it to work. The first computer I worked on professionally was a Honeywell DPS-something running the Ultimate (Pick) OS. That would be 1984. How's that? - jmh _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
