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What was your first computer?
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Back in '03 I bought a used computer that had Windows 95 OS. Don't remember the brand name but it was a good computer, that was eventually no longer supported by MS. So in '06 I bought a Dell Pro with Windows XP. A wonderful OS. But in '13 MS no longer supported that system. And some how I clicked on something, that messed up something, and I couldn't find something to fix the something that I had clicked on that messed up the something. So I bought a Dell home with the Windows 8 and got a free upgrade to Windows 8.1. Another good OS. But in July 29 '15 I was offered an opportunity to upgrade to the Windows 10. And why not? I couldn't operate the others, so I may as well move on up to the top OS, and keep up with technology. I bought the books. For dummies, McFedries, etc.....
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Hi,
But was your very first Solid State calculator a Post Versalog, that worked but you used it on faith and experience, because it made no real sense to you?
Where, on IBM 360?
LOVE,
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I was responding to your sign off = Love. I haven't the foggiest about the instrument you are talking about. I bang rocks on my head! lol
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Hi,
Thank you for the love statement.
Normally I don't explain my sign-off, unless I have to.
I have to now.
That LOVE, being all capitals, allows me to sign off correctly.
Of all hard to understand or believe concepts, it stands for this: My best remembrance of the way God The Father actually loves.
In May of 2007, I had that resident in me, until later, when I was asked by, YOU KNOW WHO, to pass it on to the next person.
It was given to some guy at work, who like me once upon a time, was trying, but did not know how to love.
I still remember how, and actually try to only love that way.
Thanks for your statement.
LOVE,
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Hi,
My first home computer was an HP, but I don't remember the model.
The IBM 360, was when I was in engineering school.
I started in 1966.
It's the very first computer, I had to tear myself away from. It was that much fun.
Since, it was my first, I stated it as such.
The Post-Versalog is a brand of Slide Rule, made out of Oiled Bamboo, and a plastic face that did everything the first HP, I think 35, did.
However, even at I think 395, 1970 Amreican Dollars, I had to have one, as they were so outrageous.
The outrageousness was, to be able to push buttons and the answers came up on the display.
It was palm sized.
LOVE,
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YES!! commodore 64. that was such fun playing frogger and the submarine spelling game.
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That's because it was.
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Kinda depends ....
Back around 1968 I bought this "computer" that was a piece of plywood with all these switches and dials on it that could be used for very basic (binary) addition and subtraction.
My next comp was the Timex Sinclair 1000. Actually used it at work on occasion (and it nearly got me fired as the company owner had a rabid fear of computers) That was in the mid 1980s.
Back around 1968 I bought this "computer" that was a piece of plywood with all these switches and dials on it that could be used for very basic (binary) addition and subtraction.
My next comp was the Timex Sinclair 1000. Actually used it at work on occasion (and it nearly got me fired as the company owner had a rabid fear of computers) That was in the mid 1980s.
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My first computer was a PC with an Intel 486 DX4 100mhz processor. It had 4 megs of ram and a graphic adapter with 1 megabyte of vram. It was a beast! I remember that it ran Windows 3.11/Dos 6.22.
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I think I used to have that same machine, and monitor. Looks very familiar, except for the speakers. My aunt gave it to us second hand. If I remember correctly, ours had a 2GB HDD and Windows 98. I used it to type school work. We had aol dial-up at that time, and a printer. My sister would play games on it.
Eventually the monitor died. Afterwards we bought some HP Pavilion desktop.
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A 4K Trash-80. You get really, really good at writing concise programs with less than 4000 bytes available.
Then Commodore 64, then a Xerox 820-2:
Big and heavy. The box under the monitor houses 2 8 in. floppy drives. Huge things, but you got one megabyte of storage on each disk.
Then Commodore 64, then a Xerox 820-2:
Big and heavy. The box under the monitor houses 2 8 in. floppy drives. Huge things, but you got one megabyte of storage on each disk.
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Somewhere between 1990 and 1993 I had a nigh indestructible Fujitsu. Loading 2.5 MB took almost 2 days...literally. We had to endure the 'taptaptapBootBootgrumblebootTap'-sound for hours
.. Lovely little tech-thing.
.. Lovely little tech-thing.
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