[kwlug-disc] 40 years ago?

[Jason Eckert]

The first computer I owned personally was the Commodore 128 (created by Bil
Herd, who signed it when he was at World of Commodore in Mississauga a few
years back).
But I have a PC5150 (still working) in the basement since it was such a
pivotal system in computing history.

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 10:58 AM R. Brent Clements <rbclemen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The TRS80 CoCo 2 was my first one too.  At some point I got a disk drive
> but I don't remember when.  I was vaguely aware of OS9 but I didn't
> understand enough about computers to know what it was. I used it all
> through highschool and only replaced it with a used IBM XT class clone
> before I went to university in 1992.  About a year later I bought a 386
> based laptop.
>
> Brent
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 10:50, Mark Steffen <mark at steffen.ca> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> 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> 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/
>>>
>>> (I started on a Vic-20, tbh... long live 4k RAM!)
>>>
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