OK, if we're digging into the past, and if I may be so bold as to suggest a slight expansion of the topic, in what year did you get your first computer and what was it?
My first computer was a Netronics Elf single board computer with an RCA 1802 CMOS processor (RCA called the technology COS/MOS), and it had 256 BYTES of 450 nS static RAM. It also had the Pixie chip that would output video. 117,000 instructions per second, no waiting! I later expanded it to 7 kB of RAM (never did get that 8th kilobyte to work!). It was programmed in machine language using a hex keypad and a toggle switch that let you directly load the RAM. Ah yes, this was 1976. Curt On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:15 PM, David R. Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > If I counted a BBS, I ran one of them in 1980 on an Apple II. When I > shut it down Larry Reeves (heartoftn.net) started his operation on a > highly modified color computer :-). > > Of course that does mean I am feeling really old right about now. > > > Dave > > > On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 11:22 -0600, John F. Eldredge wrote: > > David R. Wilson wrote: > > > My current account (owning the box it runs on too) goes back 16 years. > > > I had a uu.net feed through a friend of mine dating back to 84. > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 10:31 -0600, JMJ wrote: > > > > > >> Greetings, > > >> > > >> I was just making hot cocoa in my MindSpring Internet Services mug and > > >> realized that I've been using that account for a long time. So, I > > >> checked and it shows that I signed up on Jan. 3, 1997. So I've had > > >> that account for 13 years and it's still my primary account. > > >> > > >> Of the e-mail addresses you use frequently, how old is the oldest? > > >> I'm betting that several of you have addresses that you've been using > > >> for longer than 13 years. :-) > > >> > > >> JMJ, feeling Old School > > >> > > >> > > My first Internet email address was a UUCP bang address > > (attctc!radar!eldredge) in 1989. I was a member of the local MacIntosh > > user group for a couple of years, even though I didn't own a Mac, > > because one of their members was running Unix on his Mac and had UUCP > > access to Usenet and email through MTSU. So, I had a shell account on > > his system. Once commercial dial-up access became available, I > > discontinued the Mac user group membership. I had a succession of > > ISP-based email addresses, then registered my own domain, > > jfeldredge.com, in 2002, so that I would have an address that wouldn't > > change if I subsequently changed ISP's again. So, even though I have > > been on the Internet for 21 years, my oldest extant email address is > > only 8 years old. > > > > Of course, I used various local bulletin board systems for several years > > prior to getting Internet access. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
