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Lucylastic -> RE: How Big Was Your First One? (4/14/2011 3:16:41 PM)
Commodore 16 in 1985, commodore 64 in 86 moved to canada, had comodore, 64, 128, first little floppy drive, then a commodore huge thing, business one not home. hubby went to amiga, I got a 386 in 95, upgraded every couple of years, I still have all my old commodores n amigas

LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: How Big Was Your First One? (4/14/2011 4:25:20 PM)
I learned programming on a monster who lived in its own climate controlled room. The disk drive was about the size of a bicycle tire & if you didn't do the proper shutdown procedure you could have a disc crash that would wipe everything out. It was kinda touchy! We used punch cards & collated them into the proper sequence, put them in a cardboard box & carried them to the monster to feed them through the card reader. I wrote one program whose cards, including data cards, numbered in the hundreds. I was walking carefully toward the monster with these cards all in their proper sequence when I tripped over the pattern on the linoleum & the cards went flying! I started laughing hysterically. My fellow students gave me a wide berth after that. [8D] I couldn't think of a good reason to have a home computer until about 1995 or so. It was a 386 custom built for me by a geek friend. GAWD! I'm old!!!

Lucylastic -> RE: How Big Was Your First One? (4/14/2011 4:28:12 PM)
No not old Linnea, maturing like fine malt whiskey:)[;)] my first 100 meg hard drive on my 386 was bigger than a breeze block:) and was an external one.I thought i was the bees knees with it

girlygurl -> RE: How Big Was Your First One? (4/14/2011 7:27:32 PM)
I can't remember and he wasn't that good. [8D] sorry, couldn't resist

BKSir -> RE: How Big Was Your First One? (4/14/2011 7:31:53 PM)
Commodore Vic20... With the cassette drives for storage... That thing was... wow. I wonder what ever happened to that thing.

outhere69 -> RE: How Big Was Your First One? (4/14/2011 7:57:28 PM)
Back in the day....when we had to run on a hamster wheel to boot the computer..... The latest and greatest hard drives cost $189.00. Didn't matter about the size, the first 10 Mb ones were $189.00. Kinda like how a decent electric piano stays around $1100, but the features keep improving. Remember when you had to "park" the hard drive before you turned the computer off? 8" floppy drives?

DomMeinCT -> RE: How Big Was Your First One? (4/14/2011 8:05:57 PM)
Fast Reply..... Grad school 1986.....it was an Apple IIc 128K "portable" computer. The CPU had a handle that made it portable, but the little square monitor with the green on green screen sat on a metal stand and the two weighed about 15 lbs. The system came with Appleworks software and was a bargain from 47th Street Photo at $1200.

Lucylastic -> RE: How Big Was Your First One? (4/14/2011 8:06:23 PM)
my favourite computer joke what is the difference between a computer and a woman a computer wont complain about a three and a half inch floppy (they had just changed to the 3 1/2s)

SexyBossyBBW -> RE: How Big Was Your First One? (4/14/2011 11:08:09 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam COMPUTER ya buncha perves.[/quote]**Oh! Never mind.** Seriously, I didn't get immediately on the computer bandwagon. I do still have the big box monitor though, and am keeping it, until it kills over. M

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