Commodore Pet, the one with the flat keyboard and separate cassette deck
Then onto the Commodore Pet with the real keyboard and built in cassette
I helped build a friend's UK101 (a Tandy TRS/80 clone)
Helped build a Sinclair ZX-80
Sold my way through the "home" computers (worked in Sales), including
Sinclair ZX-81 & Spectrum & Spectrum 128, Commodore 16 & 64 & Vic 20, a
Toshiba MSX (who else remembers those?), BBC Model A & B & Acorn
Electron, Dragon 32, Atari ST & STF & STFM <g>.
>From there I sold the first PC clones - amazing 8086 processor with
512KB RAM, 10MB Hard disk!!! I remember when the first 8MHz machines
came out!
Built machines for a while, upto when the first 80286 came out, then
moved into support...
And now I work on a Dual Xeon 2 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, plus loads of stuff -
and I'm still not happy with the speed <g>
-----Original Message-----
From: brob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 6:18 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: The old days
hey guys, I would like to know of any stories you might want to share
about the old days when chatting/computer was just for geeks and the
internet was dormant. Here's mine
I used a 637 Performa CD mack that came with 300MB of space. Half of
that space was taken up by software and the operating system. I had to
constantly delete anything i can to save precious space. The coolest
game i played on it was Burn Cycle, which i still believe is the coolest
game ever. The first time I got internet was AOL 2.6, with a 2.4kbps
modem. CHatting was so fun, and that IM sound so catchy. It would take
anywhere from 5-10 minutes for my modem to load up a decent page with a
fair amount of graphics. I would just walk away for a bit and do
something else. When i got my $150 56k modem, things were alot more
nicer!
Also, I subscribed to computer magazines and used to drool over 150mhz
machines.
Comparing then to now, I'd say that i've been getting more impatient and
greedier. I know thats a bad thing, but I'd rather have it this way, at
least with technology!
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