On 12/11/2007, Dianne Reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're making me feel prehistoric! I had a C64 for my first personal > machine, but I'd worked on IBM mainframes for about 6 or 7 years before > that. Card job control input, data input mainly on card or paper tape - > our punch room still had an old hand punch in case all the electric > punches failed! > > Dianne > > > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:01 +0000, Kris Douglas wrote: > > I was born in '92 but I know that they had a ZX81 with the 16K ram > > upgrade > > (fancy :D)... and a BBC. Then they went straight over to a 286 DOS > > machine, > > which they then put 3.11wg on. (That 500mb drive still boots, as does > > windows and Qbasic and SQL Anywhere) Then they went onto a 486 then a > > 486 > > Over Drive then a Pentium MMX and so on.... > > > > Just because I wasn't there, doesn't mean I miss anythin'. We still > > have > > most of these machines, beauties. > > > > This sounds so interesting to read- the history of these things is so > interesting- I find the card/paper punch things fascinating. Has anyone > written an easy to read non-techy history of the computer? Caroline > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
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