On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 08:00 , John Stetson wrote: > Wow. All this reminiscing makes me think I might be > one of the older members of this list, even though I'm > pretty new here. Prior to college, my only real > contact with computers was a VIC20 my parents bought. > I could write a program to display my name on the > screen!!! I was invincible. My university required > each student to buy a Mac. We had three choices - the > best being the SE/30. She's the one I chose. And I > paid over $4000 for her. I had to take a Pascal > course, too. I hated it. Sorry. I wasn't quite as > excited about viruses either. But we had Disinfectant > back then. Thanks, John Norstad. As far as the sound > of the HD... When I recently (4 months ago or so) > started up my baby, the sound brought back a flood of > memories. Thanks, Apple. > -js
Dunno if you're one of the oldest.... you're probably near my age. My _first_ computer was a TRS-80 CoCo (CoCo 1 -- the silver one with Chicklet keys) that dad brought home because I couldn't wait the year it would take for our IBM PC order to come through. (This was 1980-81, and he was an IBM employee at the time.) All my friends had C-64s, and a few had VIC20s. I always wanted a C-64 or Atari 400/800 (finally have an Atari XEGS now) but Dad wouldn't hear of it. Kudos to your Mac-loving Uni. :) Eagle -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
