My Reply follows quote. On 01/08/2002 13:39 Luca Rescigno said: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luca Rescigno) >I've been using Macs almost all my life. First one I ever used was an >SE/30 running system 6 in the late 80's, when I was still a little pup >(born in 1984). I've inherited computers from my parents as they've >replaced them, starting with the SE/30 and continuing through a IIcx, >Quadra 610, 7100/80, 8100/100, and finally my current PowerBook G3.
Well, for most of MY life, only the government and IBH had computers. While I took a couple of programming coursed on college (ALGOL, Fortran II) I "cut my teeth" on CP/M in the early 80s and started with an Apple ][+ in 1981. Even got so I could read a track/sector map in a disk editor. Those days are LONG gone! >I do remember how big a deal System 7 was when it came out; it looked >very cool and advanced with its "3D" looking theme on the "color >computer" (IIcx). My dad used to sell computers and he told me about one >person who ordered a whopping 4 MB of RAM. It took six months to deliver >and it cost him $2000. And how he tried to dissuade some people from >getting a color monitor in favor of a hard disk, but they wouldn't >listen, and of course they weren't happy. Heh, we take so much for >granted now. Color or a hard disk? Tough choice. > > >> My favorite memories of old Macs center around the viruses actually. :) >> I got such a kick out of that. For some of my programming classes, we >> used THINK Pascal, saving our programs on floppies. The greatest part >> was sticking my floppy into an infected SE or SE/30 (I don't remember >> which they were, but I do remember the *distinctive* hard drive sound) >> and ending up with a virus on every file on the floppy. I guess my equivalent experience is a mispunched 80 column card that sent the machine into a loop. >> Those were the good old days of nondestructive viruses -- when viruses >> were EVERYWHERE. We couldn't keep our lab machines clean even for a >> day. >> >> BTW, *I*'m the new kid... other than using Macs for a few classes during >> college, I didn't join the Macintosh crowd until 10.1! :) >> >> Eagle Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
