my parents bought an epson XT in the mid 80's It was the 3rd PC I took apart :D it had a 45mb HDD and 640 KB of ram, my dad had purchased a (i think) 2400 baud modem and we'd use PFS:First Choice to telnet to GE's GEnie BBS, It had CGA graphics.. I remember begging my dad for a VGA monitor and card... never happened tho.. in the early early 90's right around when Win 3.11 was wowing the corporate business space.. they bought a Pentium 60 Packard Bell.. that was the machine I really cut my teeth on and the first machine I ever got web with.. that machine had 9 mbs of Ram..
I don't miss the old days much, but it was nice having the tiniest little thing thrill you.. after I got online I wasn't really wowed again until I installed my first ever distro of linux which was I think around 98 or 99 for me. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Michael Schultheiss <[email protected]>wrote: > Curt Lundgren wrote: > > 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 Timex Sinclair 1000. I'm not sure when I got it > but since Wikipedia said it was released in July 1982 and discontinued > in 1983, December 1982 is probably a decent estimate. > > The membrane keyboard on it died a few years after we got it so we got > rid of it. I got another Timex Sinclair 1000 off of eBay a few years > ago. > > -- > 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 > -- -Todd -- 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
