I bought a real IBM PC in 1982. It cost about $2,000. It had 64 kilobytes of RAM and a single 360K 5.25-inch floppy disk drive. It had a monochrome screen and ran DOS 1.0. There was a BASIC interpreter built into ROM and I had bought a word processing program called Volkswriter. And I had an Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer. With all of that I had a "complete" home computer system.
I was still using an 8088-based IBM PC--almost exactly as described here--to write term papers in 1993. My family was very much of the "use it until it breaks" mindset and the thing just didn't go down. I was actually somewhat confused by the new-fangled mouse and gui when I started using more modern PC's, which was actually not until mid-1997! DOS command-line was all I ever knew!
Interesting memories here... Does anyone remember the little $99. computer that Clive Sinclair put out in "kit" form...believe it was around 1978-79..
Hard to beat the cost and the programming was in Basic. I wish I had saved that little son of a gun..hooked it to the TV...my wife spent many hours playing games with it...
I bought a real IBM PC in 1982. It cost about $2,000. It had 64 kilobytes of RAM and a single 360K 5.25-inch floppy disk drive. It had a monochrome screen and ran DOS 1.0. There was a BASIC interpreter built into ROM and I had bought a word processing program called Volkswriter. And I had an Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer. With all of that I had a "complete" home computer system.
I was still using an 8088-based IBM PC--almost exactly as described here--to write term papers in 1993. My family was very much of the "use it until it breaks" mindset and the thing just didn't go down. I was actually somewhat confused by the new-fangled mouse and gui when I started using more modern PC's, which was actually not until mid-1997! DOS command-line was all I ever knew!
We used our Apple IIc from the time we bought in in the early 80s until my family bought a pc in the late 90s. My middle bro used it through high school and the youngest used it through middle school.
Lots of great software for it. I learned to type using "MasterType"... blasted those letters with the little space ship... ahhhh the good old days.
Best fun I had was when I was running a 6 line bulletin board on WildCat. All the late nights building my awesome ANSI graphics for the entrance pages.
Setting up the different online games, loved Trade Wars
Being the first to upgrade to 14.4 modems from 9600's.
And the best one, the first to offer internet E-mail from the board. Even though we had already got all the boards in the three counties around me to pass mail back and forth to each others boards.
Have to love thin wire networking (not). Was a serious blessing when 10 base twisted pair came out.
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From How Stuff Works:
I was still using an 8088-based IBM PC--almost exactly as described here--to write term papers in 1993. My family was very much of the "use it until it breaks" mindset and the thing just didn't go down. I was actually somewhat confused by the new-fangled mouse and gui when I started using more modern PC's, which was actually not until mid-1997! DOS command-line was all I ever knew!
Interesting memories here...
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Interesting memories here... Does anyone remember the little $99. computer that Clive Sinclair put out in "kit" form...believe it was around 1978-79..
Hard to beat the cost and the programming was in Basic. I wish I had saved that little son of a gun..hooked it to the TV...my wife spent many hours playing games with it...
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We used our Apple IIc from the time we bought in in the early 80s until my family bought a pc in the late 90s. My middle bro used it through high school and the youngest used it through middle school.
Lots of great software for it. I learned to type using "MasterType"... blasted those letters with the little space ship... ahhhh the good old days.
Kathryn :o)
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Seems like I am surrounded by other oldies,lol.
Best fun I had was when I was running a 6 line bulletin board on WildCat. All the late nights building my awesome ANSI graphics for the entrance pages.
Setting up the different online games, loved Trade Wars
Being the first to upgrade to 14.4 modems from 9600's.
And the best one, the first to offer internet E-mail from the board. Even though we had already got all the boards in the three counties around me to pass mail back and forth to each others boards.
Have to love thin wire networking (not). Was a serious blessing when 10 base twisted pair came out.
Ahh the good ole days, you can have them, lol
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