[plug] What was your first computer?

Russell Hobman Russell.Hobman at watercorporation.com.au
Thu Oct 18 14:06:27 WST 2001


hey simon, what I don't miss at all is writing Fortran programs on punch
cards for watfor/watfiv compilers. these new graphical PC are great. cheers,
Russell.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Simon Scott [SMTP:Simon.Scott at flexiplan.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:00 PM
> To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject:	Re: [plug] What was your first computer?
> 
> 	Where's 
> 
> 		Commodore 16
> 		Dragon 32
> 		Commodore +4
> 		Anything 8086 based
> 		Anything Amstrad
> 		Anything that resembles a breadboard 
> 		Commodore PET series
> 		Coleco Adam (?) or Colecovision with keyboard
> 		Anything Atari	
> 
> 	Does anyone else miss the days when computing didnt just involves
> boring, beige coloured clones?
> 
> 
> 		
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 	From:	skribe <skribe at amber.com.au> on 18/10/2001 01:52 PM
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> 	Subject:	Re: [plug] What was your first computer?
> 
> 	On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:45, Travis Read wrote:
> 	> You don't have the Mircobee in the list. I built a Microbee 64K
> with it's
> 	> super fast Z80 Processor and a massive 64K of RAM!
> 
> 	There's about 400 I don't have on the list.  Include it in the
> comment 
> 	section, please =)
> 
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