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How many people remember by patch2006-11-19 12:55:59
  First computer... by CartaMusica2002-06-03 07:09:57
    I started with 1200 baud, but my son ... by chuckab2002-06-03 07:16:53
      Oh, my... by CartaMusica2006-11-19 12:55:59
        How many? Too many! by chuckab 2002-06-03 09:31:59
My parents owned a Comodore 128 that I used to play Kennedy Approach on. They used it a long time ago to log on to Quantum Link (they still had the key template around the function keys). I actually used to support several of the IBM units, including the portable one where the keyboard attached to the front of the machine. However, there is one machine I got to know real well that isn't on that list and that is a Burroughs dedicated word processor attached to a floor-standing daisy wheel printer. I counted the key strokes one time and discovered that if you were in the middle of editing a document, it took 14 keystrokes to send it to print.

One little side note: One day I was browsing around in a Radio Shack and programed a little 4 function calculator into an on-display TRS-80. The clerk was amazed. I just found it fun! -- Still do - don't program now, however
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          I know about the old Burroughs too. by notageek2002-06-03 14:35:29
            WANG???? by chuckab2002-06-03 16:24:57

 

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