On 8 Apr 2008 at 23:52, Benjamin Zachary wrote:
> You know I was right on that page and flipped through it real quick and went
> on to look up the original ibm pc and a bunch of other things.
FWIW I still have an IBM XT on the shelf, monochrome monitor, IBM keyboard, and
all. One of these days I'll have to see if it still boots --before I put it up
for sale on eBay ;-)
My first personally-owned PC was a Zenith Z-152, 4.77 MHz, 320k of RAM and dual
360k floppies (320k/360k ? memory fades with time). It cost me over $3,000,
with Microsoft Word 1.0 for DOS and an Okidata MicroLine 9-pin dot-matrix
printer (which I still have). My brother-the-computer-scientist was jealous --
he worked at the local university and "only" had 64k of workspace on the CDC
mainframe.
On Dec. 31 one year (don't you love the income tax?) I upgraded the Z-152 to
640k RAM and a 7-MHz NEC V20 chip and added a $399 20-megabyte full-height hard
drive. Ended up giving it to my kid's pre-school loaded with reading and other
teaching programs, all pre-Windows, of course.
When I upgraded my 1200-baud modem to 2400-baud I had to find an off-line
Compuserve-forum-saving/reading program (OzCIS -- for the "old timers" -- did
anyone else here use it?) -- at 1200-baud I could read the forums as they
scrolled by, but at 2400-baud I could no longer keep up. Egad, I still
remember my Compuserve ID: 75500,3223 and there's even one Google "hit" on my
CIS ID still remaining "out there":
http://www.google.com/search?q=%2275500%2C3223%22
Anybody here remember TeamB for dBASE?
Angus
P.S. Yes, I have a (partially) grey beard -- not quite Sid Dabster but "one of
these days" I'll get there ;-)
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GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
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