On 03/11/2012 06:46 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:06:39 -0500, Leonlcb11211@swbelldotnet

No fair! They're using green LEDs, not green paint.

My first comp was a $950 80286-12MHz screamer with two 5.25 floppies
and a 10MB hard drive. I added a 20MB hard drive the next year for
only $300. I think the comp came with 284k and I later upgraded to
640k and started using DesqVIEW to multitask with it. That was so
-cool- at the time! I adopted Windows 3.0 shortly thereafter and
probably saw 28,000 Blue Screens of Death before Win 3.1 came out and
fixed most of that. Remember Norton Editor and Norton Commander? Ol
Bill was truly a DOS God back then, before he sold his soul to
SlymeAntics.

My first comp (it wasn't really mine as I had just signed on with Big
Blue) was an IBM 360/30 in 1966. A mainframe with 8K of core memory and
a card reader/punch, a chain printer and a huge 3MB removable disc.

The software was a card assembler. That sucker was proudly displayed in
the IBM building in Seattle behind glass walls on the ground floor for
all to marvel. It did have a console with lots of switches and little
blinky lights (not leds).


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