Aphelion

It's astonishing to think how far we've come in 30 short years:

http://medhed.com/blog/2007/03/these_ar ... f_our.html

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...

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. :)