Thinking back on it, I don't even know what the first computer I used was.
We handed in our punch cards at the window & came back the next day to
get a printout so we could see if the program had run.
Besides that, the only thing I remember is the telephone bill came on an
IBM punch card that had to be returned with payment, and those cards fit
into the card punch machine so I could write rude messages to the phone
company before sending them back.
The first computer I ever owned was a 16Mhz Emerson PC-AT clone with a
40meg harddrive & 5-14" floppy drive DOS 3.3 and a modem. I don't
remember now, but it may have even had a CGA display.
On 2/13/2014 3:10 AM, J.C. O'Connell wrote:
The first computer I ever used was a HP85, built in monitor, tape drive,
and BASIC.
I forget what these cost, but we used a quite a few of these as
instrument controllers
at work in both engineering and production.
On 2/13/2014 2:42 AM, John Coyle wrote:
Very first computer I ever specified and bought for my employer was an
HP86A, green screen, 2 * 5.25
floppies, plug-in 64k memory module, Epson M1500 printer and an HP
plotter - bargain at $13,500!
My *istD I bought for a heavily discounted $1900 direct from the
importer.
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
-----Original Message-----
From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of CollinB
Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2014 10:47 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: When did equipment get so cheap?
Yeah, that's it. The same sort of thing happened with PC's. Remember
what the first XT's cost?
Alan C
When I was selling Apple ][ plus computers, people would spend $2500+
on the system to run a $200
VisiCalc program.
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