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[JaSAn]

. . . . .  this was your first computer:

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

My first computer...  the 1010 Power Trig...
 

 

I still have it for times my MacBook might be down.  It’s in a glass case with a sign that says...

 

“In Emergency, Break Glass”

 

[buckland]

Mine was a TRS 80 Tandy

[Foy]

KayPro 64 here. Then the office upgraded to a TRS-80.

[ski3pin]

..................fingers and toes here.

[Wandering Sagebrush]

..................fingers and toes here.

...but, can you count from 0 to 31 on just one hand of that “Digital Computer”?

[craig333]

Thanks for making me feel young! I started with a 486sx 33. 

[JaSAn]

Thanks for making me feel young! I started with a 486sx 33. 

 

Young or late to the game?

[Foy]

Thanks for making me feel young! I started with a 486sx 33. 

Our first office "network" was a "sneakers network" where most everybody had an 8088 desktop.  We had one "server" which was a 286 machine running at something like 25 mhz (correct clock speed term?)  "server" was the only desktop (actually full tower) connected to a high speed printer, a Xerox machine which was about the size of a damn coffin.  When the various accountants finished tax returns or financial statements on our desktops, we'd print to a floppy (a real 5" floppy, not those newfangled hard cased 3" floppies) and we'd walk the disc down the hall to the "server" operator.  Hence the "sneaker network".  

 

After a couple of years doing that, we upgraded to our own self-installed LAN which we ran on Windows 3.0.  Hilarity ensued, but that's an entirely different story.  Suffice it to say I still experience blood pressure spikes every time I see Bill Gates' face  on TV or on the Intertubes.

 

The "sneakers network" years were roughly 1987-1989, and the self-built LAN fiasco was roughly 1990-1992.  I've tried my best to erase most memories of those years.

 

Foy

Edited by Foy, 03 June 2020 - 04:29 PM.

[Optimistic Paranoid]

My first computer was also a TRS 80.  My first attempt at networking was to use Desqview 386 to tie two computers together as a computer BBS, running Wildcat software.  And I ran the Mace Utilities rather than the Norton Utilities.  Peter Norton may have invented the UnDelete command, but Paul Mace invented UnFormat . . .

 

Back when computers were fun, and not just another household machine like a TV or a refrigerator . . .