Hey an IBM 5110 thats close to something I knew!!! I started on a thing called COMPUCOLOR, then an IBM 5120 (using BRADS, and 8" floppies, and the excellent BASIC in that machine), including index file access etc etc.
Then around 1978, the Apple II in European version with PAL colour and bit higher resolution. I have some Lisa stuff (bought it later), Have some APPLE /// stuff. Have plenty of Apple II, II+, //e stuff, ][gs and many Mac's.. Was founder and member of Belgian usergroup, until Apple started exploiting usergroups comercially and censoring the stuff. For my profession I was trained for IBM mainframe and SPERRY UNIVAC 1100, EXEC-8 I loved the latter... Marc cb wrote on 13-11-2006 15:51 * * * Start of original message text * * * >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). > >-chris ><www.mythtech.net> > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
