Barbara Duprey wrote:
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.
You know - recently I read a report from a Marketing type about how
OpenOffice.org was an application with a young demographic...I wonder
just how that was determined?
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