Jack D. Lewis wrote:
Lisi Reisz wrote the following on 2/13/2008 4:27 PM:
Sorry to quibble, but the first PC wasn't launched until August 12,
1981. So it can't be _over_ 30 years!!
My ability to _remember_ the history of computers is very
distressing. Well, at least I can say that I don't remember
Colossus, tho' I do ante-date it. :-(
Lisi
I suppose it depends on what you call a PC. My first experience was in
1979 with a State-of-the-art, 16 KB mem, Trash-80. I had ample storage
on my 8-inch floppies that would let me store a whopping 360 KB on a
double sided disk.
My first personal computer was an Apple II Plus (II+? 2+? -- just
remember how to say it, not to spell it!) in 1978, 16 years after the
start of my mainframe experience in college. At that time, IBM was quite
firmly denying that there would ever be any reason for them to develop
any such creature, so I didn't wait to get one from the employee
purchase plan. Anyway, there weren't any floppies (of any size) -- it
used a cassette recorder for I/O, and it was really fun trying to
balance the channels.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
