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Computer memories
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Re: Computer memories
Wow. Between home, school, & work, I've used so many of them.
Starting with an Olivetti Programma 101 (with it's shocking ability to print a small tape with 1s and 0s, as I recall), Apple 2-0, 2e, 2c, TI 99/4a, TRS-80, Mac Plus, SE, SE30, IIfx, IIci, Classic, Quadra 950, Performa 750?, candy Imacs (strawberry and grape), G3, G4, G5, flat screen Imac, plus a bunch of Compaqs, Dells, Gateways, and cobbled-together Frankenputers, etc. running everything from Windows 95 & up (I'm avoiding Vista with all my might)... I never expected to know all this stuff.
Oh, yeah, throw in a little Xenix server (picture unix on intelligence-reducing drugs), and a lot of physical networking, too. (I hate running cables through ceilings, yet I always seem to be the one doing it. Even if it's in my own house.)
Nice trip down memory lane...
Starting with an Olivetti Programma 101 (with it's shocking ability to print a small tape with 1s and 0s, as I recall), Apple 2-0, 2e, 2c, TI 99/4a, TRS-80, Mac Plus, SE, SE30, IIfx, IIci, Classic, Quadra 950, Performa 750?, candy Imacs (strawberry and grape), G3, G4, G5, flat screen Imac, plus a bunch of Compaqs, Dells, Gateways, and cobbled-together Frankenputers, etc. running everything from Windows 95 & up (I'm avoiding Vista with all my might)... I never expected to know all this stuff.
Oh, yeah, throw in a little Xenix server (picture unix on intelligence-reducing drugs), and a lot of physical networking, too. (I hate running cables through ceilings, yet I always seem to be the one doing it. Even if it's in my own house.)
Nice trip down memory lane...
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Re: Computer memories
My first computer was a TI99/4a, followed by an Apple IIe, an Amiga 500, an Amiga 1200, and then I switched to PCs in 1994.
There are currently four computers in the house, three of which are mine. 2 PCs (one for me, one for my wife, running XP), a 17" G4 iMac, and a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop running xubuntu linux.
I worked on a variety of other computers over the years, including Mac IIlc and Quadras in the UGA computer labs, CMS/VM terminals on the IBM mainframe at ECU, and various computers belonging to other folks.
My biggest contribution to you lot, computer-wise, was giving Dan Hollifield his first modem, wayback in 199(mumble), an Intel external 14400. Sometime later, Aphelion was born. :)
There are currently four computers in the house, three of which are mine. 2 PCs (one for me, one for my wife, running XP), a 17" G4 iMac, and a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop running xubuntu linux.
I worked on a variety of other computers over the years, including Mac IIlc and Quadras in the UGA computer labs, CMS/VM terminals on the IBM mainframe at ECU, and various computers belonging to other folks.
My biggest contribution to you lot, computer-wise, was giving Dan Hollifield his first modem, wayback in 199(mumble), an Intel external 14400. Sometime later, Aphelion was born. :)