[rescue] Personal Progressions (was Re: SS10/20 death)

[Sheldon T. Hall]

In Message: 5 on Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:10:46 -0600 didst Bill Bradford
<mrbill at mrbill.net> declaim ...

>On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:01:10PM -0500, George Adkins wrote:
>> Forgive my nostalgia, but that was the machine I broke my Quad-SMP cherry
on.
>
>First video game console: Fairchild Channel F
>First computer: TI-99/4A
>First computer that I really got into: Amiga 1000
>First Sun: 3/50 with 19" mono monitor. 1995.
>First SPARC: SPARCstation 1 that I paid $700 for in 1995
>First SMP machine: Dual-66Mhz BeBox (STEVE HATLE, I WANT THAT MACHINE
BACK!)
>First SMP SPARC: SS10, dual SM41s
>Favorite machine:  Probably that first SS1.  It kicked ass.
>
>"biggest" computer I've had an account on: E6500 at work.

Hmmmmm.  Lessee ...

First video game console: Never owned one.
First computer used: Some UNIVAC thing at U of Colorado, Denver, 1973.
First computer used professionally: NCR 315, 1973.
First computer that I really got into: NCR 315.
First Sun: IPX retrieved from a dumpster at One Infinite Loop, Cupertino.
First SPARC: Ditto.
First SMP machine: Still waiting by the phone.
Favorite machine: Sparc LX

"biggest" computer I've had an account on: VAX cluster at DCA, 1989, I
think.

-Shel