[kwlug-disc] 40 years ago?

[Mark Steffen]

First PC was a TRS-80 Coco2 in around 1982/3 I think.  I regret not 
getting into OS9 now I think it would have been up my alley. Eventually 
got a C64 in 85, an Amiga in 88, a PC in 89 (I wanted to run a multiple 
phone line BBS and it seemed the best path forward to that was 
Galacticomm MajorBBS on x86).  Also in 89 I got my introduction to SCO 
Xenix at a summer job between gr8 and 9 porting some WANG BASIC+Btrieve 
software to compiled MS Basic + ISAM on Xenix, one 386 as a 'server' and 
we all worked on Wyse terminals, it was glorious.  After Xenix I 
realized there was a LOT PCs could do ... begged parents for a copy of 
Coherent Unix (Mark Williams Company) for Christmas a year later, no 
dice, and then of course I discovered Linux in, I think 91... SLS 
"distro" iirc, parents freaked out about the phone bill to download the 
14 or 15 floppies worth from a seattle public access unix system 
(luckily I at least had a USR Dual Standard 14.4k modem lol)... those 
were the days!

On 2021-08-12 10:21 a.m., Ron Singh wrote:
> Oh yeah, my 1st love --
> http://oldcomputers.net/osi-600.html 
> <http://oldcomputers.net/osi-600.html>
>
> I am just realizing how rabidly I got into computers and analogue 
> electronics(later digital) in a short span of time, no wonder my 
> parents then were terribly worried about me blowing all my moolah on 
> this stuff.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron S.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 9:54 AM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org 
> <mailto:doug at moens.org>> wrote:
>
>     My dad got an S100/CPM/Z-80 system in 1977, which was a milestone
>     in my life.
>     We skipped the IBM PC, and he got a Macintosh in 1984.
>     It was the Mac that was lifechanging for me. The PC with DOS
>     (which I never used) was not that different from CPM.
>
>     On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, at 8:54 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>>     Our lives were irrevocably changed forty years ago this month:
>>
>>     https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/40-years-of-the-pc/
>>     <https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/40-years-of-the-pc/>
>>
>>     (I started on a Vic-20, tbh... long live 4k RAM!)
>>
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