was in high school on an Apple ][+. I've actually got one in a closet at home, but since I have no room to set it up, it stays packed away (until I can get a lot more desk space). I've already ditched my television and 17" CRT for a TV card and a pair of flat screen monitors, but there's still not really enough room to set up that museum piece and get it running again. I've only got the single 5.25" drive, but I also have a Microsoft(!) CP/M card and an 80-column card (actually the CP/M card might be the thing that gives me 80 columns) and a whopping 44K of RAM. When the ][-GS was released, I wanted one but couldn't afford it.
When Commodore released the Amiga computer, I wanted one but couldn't afford it. When the 286 computer was released, one of my roommates (at college) had one, and I wanted one but couldn't afford it. It wasn't until the Pentium III was released that I could actually afford to buy myself a new computer--quite a jump up from the Apple ][+.
Now I've skipped over the Pentium IV and gone to the AMD Athlon 64. I have 2 home computers based on 939-pin 2GHz Venice-core processors, and I've got my sights set on a rack-mounted gigabit ethernet router/gateway, a file server, and a web server. By the time I can afford that, they probably will have already released the next two generations of processors... |
