HEY

oldrocker

Had a lightning strike a while back, fried my desktop so I'm on an old laptop that is CRAP and half works.

Soooo

Everyone requesting prayers/thoughts, consider it done.

Those selling stuff GLWTS.

And finally those who have gotten some new toys NO FAIR....

All the best.
David

mhardy6647

Got the ol' Osborne cranked up, eh?

kevhed72

I think he's working off his old TI 99/4A....which I still happen to have sitting at my Moms house.

mhardy6647

kevhed72 wrote: »

I think he's working off his old TI 99/4A....which I still happen to have sitting at my Moms house.

or a Sinclair (Timex), maybe...




ahh, the memories

shawn474

mhardy6647

oh, and apropos of the title of this thread...




We miss you @oldrocker!

oldrocker

oldrocker

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Better comment to get to a better set of numbers..PHEW!!!!

dromunds

mhardy6647 wrote: »

Got the ol' Osborne cranked up, eh?

I seem to recall a Franklin with a flip down keyboard like that.

mhardy6647

Kaypro's the other luggable I remember from the early-ish days (FWIW).
IBM, if memory serves, had a luggable -- maybe a PS/1?

EDIT: nurp* -- apparently it was a PS/2
(i.e., rather more modern )



The cool professors in our department invested in early luggables as they became available. We were still runnin' S-100 bus "PCs" and Heathkit H-89s in my lab (and some even odder things, thanks to some sort of agreement JHU had with DEC in those long-ago times)**.
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* this is a neologism constructed from nope and derp, in case that's not obvious
** actually, my thesis advisor was a very cool professor He had somewhat non-mainstream tastes in 'putes, though -- so we had quite an array of 'em; some pretty out there for the early/mid-80s.

Viking64

I don't acknowledge anything before Windows XP.

tonyp063

oldrocker

Mine was XP.....

cfrizz

I got my start with a Radio Shack Tandy.

westmassguy

Windows 95 was my starting point, and Windows still sucks. Nice to see you back brother.

oldrocker

Stopped at BB, guy ask what I needed a computer for?

Email the wife, visit the polk audio page I said.

Pork what he ask? Went through the pitch, I swear I heard a few "niners" in there.

Then said this one here is excellent for online gaming...

I'll just order one from Dell.

joecoulson

Not for business, but our first computer



Getting the 64 was like going to the moon for the first time.

Viking64

joecoulson wrote: »

Getting the 64 was like going to the moon for the first time.

Yeah, I've had a few women tell me that.

nooshinjohn

Here is Jesse’s first computer. Carbon dating indicates it was built around 50BC...