On Wed, June 3, 2020 7:02 pm, OK Don via Mercedes wrote:
> Right! - 3.5" floppies were WAY cool. I still have a Panasonic laptop
> that boots from a 3.5" floppy of the 720KB size.
It hasn't wanted to boot up for the last ten years or so, but I have a
Zenith Minisport HD with a 2 or 2.5" 20 Meg
Right! - 3.5" floppies were WAY cool. I still have a Panasonic laptop that
boots from a 3.5" floppy of the 720KB size. My first use of a computer was
a CP/M machine that a friend loaned me for few months while it was between
his customers. I later got a VIC 20 with the tape drive. That lasted a
And when the 3.25 floppy came out it was a miracle!
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 4:56 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> My first computer I used extensively and learned on was a 286 as well back
> during the same time frame at work. I remember the 486 being a monster and
My first computer I used extensively and learned on was a 286 as well back
during the same time frame at work. I remember the 486 being a monster and when
they came out with Pentium processors it was unbelievable.
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> On Jun 3, 2020, at 3:13 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote:
>
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 16:03:23 -0400 Meade Dillon via Mercedes
wrote:
> I declare Craig the winner.
Winner?
Craig
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 3:16 PM Craig via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> > My first use of a computer was in 1967 at Caltech. We used modified
> > IBM Selectric typewriters scattered
I declare Craig the winner.
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Max
Charleston SC
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 3:16 PM Craig via Mercedes
wrote:
> My first use of a computer was in 1967 at Caltech. We used modified IBM
> Selectric typewriters scattered across campus and connected to the
> mainframe in the computation
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 12:46:21 -0700 Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes
wrote:
> I started with computers in '76 using a TTY keyboard to access gummint
> computers. Later, running CPM, I was able to see the evolution using
> some of the TTY codes for editing etc. For some reason I was never able
> to get
You beat me by a,year. I was using an IBM 029 punch card machine to enter
my data on a mainframe & get my data back on a data tape.
Dwight Giles Jr.
Wickford RI
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020, 3:47 PM Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> I started with computers in '76 using a
I started with computers in '76 using a TTY keyboard to access gummint
computers. Later, running CPM, I was able to see the evolution using some of
the TTY codes for editing etc. For some reason I was never able to get
interested in the games. I was too hooked on the productivity aspects of
