Ha, we had a lot in common, from the Zenith PC to the OzCIS software. Going from 300 to 2400 bps was like going from a bicycle to a Ferrari :-)
Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 09 April, 2008 02:45 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: for old timers 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 ;-) -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +-----------------------------------+ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
