First Computers (was Re: [SunRescue] Yay, I don't feel...)

[Gil Young]

The first I used was an old old old mainframe in my dad's ATT office in NYC.
I had an account and everything!  It was Unix System something, don't
remember.  All I remember was that it was a mono dumb terminal and I was
typing in my .plan (or something similar) when the system was rebooted by
the admin.

The first owned was a Timex Sinclair 1000 with memory pack.  Then a C64,
then a ATT 7300 Unix PC  (68000) with 20 meg HDD and 360K FDD, 1 Meg of
memory and a 8086 daughtercard to run DOS.  Then a Mac II SI, a 286, 386,
then a Mac Quadra 605, then a 486, Cyrix 200, AMD 300, IMAC 400DV, Celeron
300 O'clocked to 450 and there I am.  All I still have are the IMAC and the
Celery (I just gave the 605 away to my Father In Law, he upgraded from my
old Mac II SI, which was upgraded from his original mac plus (which is now a
macquarium in the trunk of my car).

phew...

Gil


----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Haas <wedge at lightlink.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 11:57 AM
Subject: First Computers (was Re: [SunRescue] Yay, I don't feel...)


> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >
> > > 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-)
> >
>
> While we're on this trend- what was everyone's first computer? Do you
> still own it?? Still use it?
>
> My very first computer was a Commodore VIC-20... I was too young at the
> time to truly appreciate it... I had a game cartridge of some number/math
> game that I remember playing endlessly.
>
> Then I got an XT that I played with for a few years and then got upgraded
> to a 386SX (kept the CGA monitor from the XT)..
>
> I got bored with 4 colors and a mono PC speaker, so I left and played with
> the 8-bit Atari machines for a couple years (XE Game Machine, then
> upgraded to the 130XE! 128K of RAM!!)... I could really play Star Raiders
> with this setup :) And I still own all my Ataris :)
>
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