It was a Sol 20 (with a massive 24K of memory, no monitor, no HD (just a jack to an audio cassette player)) - I put it together around 1974/75, if my feeble memory serves...
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hardee, Charles H Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 33 Years In IT/Security/Audit What number Altair Kit did you get? -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mikhail Ramendik Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 33 Years In IT/Security/Audit 2009/9/1 Doc Farmer <[email protected]> > Folks, > > Today marks when I started my first job in IT. Well, my first PAYING > job - I built my first PC for a guy when I was 15, but I'm talking the > BIG IRON. So you built your first PC even more than 33 years ago, that's earlier than 1976? What did you build back then? > I started as a keypunch operator on night-shift (while going > to high school during the day for my senior year), I actually ENJOYED > reading IBM manuals (still do - doctors have yet to find a cure), As I work as an Information Developer in IBM, I liked this line :) (I'm only with them for a year. Disclaimer - only speaking for myself, etc). -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
