[kwlug-disc] 40 years ago?

[Francisco Dominguez]

LOL! I bet I still have my MWC manual for my Atari :-)
Probably right next to my PDP11 guide :-)

Francisco 
fxdoming at gmail.com

> On Aug 12, 2021, at 10:50 AM, 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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