On Nov 13, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Bea Hopkinson wrote:
Looks like you are historically a little ahead of me Chris with the Lisa's. I started only with the Mac Plus.
I actually started with computers even earlier than the Lisa (which oddly, I had AFTER I had my 128k Mac despite the fact that they came out first).
My first computer was an IBM 5110 or an Apple II, I don't recall which one was actually first. Both were around 1977. I have a feeling the 5110 came first, but I was too young to remember (they weren't "mine" but I had regular access to them and used them on my own, the 5110 was my father's and the Apple II was my brother's... but I admit, I did little more than play football or Enterprise on the 5110... however I was writing programs on the Apple II in Applesoft Basic... as well as playing games). I still have the IBM 5110 it is in its carry bag on a pallet in my basement and the dual 8" floppy drive unit is sitting in my garage on a cart right now (along with a 46" computer monitor that I have NO idea what to do with). All the manuals and paperwork for it however are in my storage garage (I have to go collect them and move them to my house with the rest of it). I no longer have the Apple II, but I do have the II+ that it was upgraded to (although I no longer know which of the II+ units that I own is the "original" one... same goes with the 128k Mac... I have acquired several of them over the years and I no longer recall which is THE 128k mac that I personally had... actually, I'd probably have to say that about the Mac Plus as well, as I know it is one of several beige ones sitting in my storage garage, but I'm not sure I'd be able to pick out exactly which one it is.... the same *might* hold true for my SE, however, I think it may be the only dual floppy SE that I own... oddly, I do know which is the original keyboard for my SE as up until recently, I kept swapping that keyboard to my current machine as I liked the solid feel of the old "aircraft carrier" extended keyboards).
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