[SunRescue] Yay, I don't feel quite so freaking young anymore!

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

TI-99 hmm? was that the all in one box with the keyboard and video out?

Then that was my first computer. I got it when I was 5 from my grandpop and learned to program BASIC from the manuals. My dad wouldn't let me touch his IBM XT because he'd thought I'd screw it up. 

It also came with the speech box and the I/O expansion chassis.. really fun machine..

-- Aaron Finley

rescue at sunhelp.org wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:52:19AM -0700, Will Jennings wrote:
> > Well, for the record, I'm 19 (20 this month), so seeing there are people 
> > younger than me on the list is very comforting, heh. I've been using 
> > computers since 1984, starting out on a VAX 11/780, though I then went many 
> > years without exposure to real computers, just vague memories of 386i's at 
> > my dad's work (I can picture the Sun screensaver to this day). My first 
> > machine was a Commodore 128, I still own it... And about 60 or more other 
> > machines...
> 
> I started out at age 9 with a TI-99/4A.  GOt it 2 months before they
> quit making them. 8-)
> 
> I'm 26, BTW.  Been doing the Solaris/UNIX thing since 1995, before
> that I was a hardcore VMS hax0r.  The first web server I ever set up
> is still up - http://mercur.usao.edu. 8-) (VAX/VMS, even, back when
> people thought "you have to have a Sun box to have a web server.." and
> I was like "uhh, no" and setup one on the campus mini as a summer
> independent study project... goofed off for 4 weeks, did the work in
> one week, and got five hours credit for it...)
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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