My first computer was a MicroAce, an unauthorized clone of the Sinclair ZX80,
in 1980 or 1981. It came as a kit for $200.00, which was a considerable amount
of money for me at the time, given that I was working a minimum-wage job,
part-time. I spent the better part of two days soldering it tog
my parents bought an epson XT in the mid 80's It was the 3rd PC I took apart
:D it had a 45mb HDD and 640 KB of ram, my dad had purchased a (i think)
2400 baud modem and we'd use PFS:First Choice to telnet to GE's GEnie BBS,
It had CGA graphics.. I remember begging my dad for a VGA monitor and
car
There were 3 of us geeks (Chuck, Mark, and myself). Chuck's parents got him
a C64 and a tape drive. We spent countless hours hacking on that thing.
Then he con'd his mom into a floppy drive. Ah, now "we" had a real machine.
The next expense he talked her out of was a HexMon cartridge. We entered
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Brian Roy wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Michael Schultheiss
> wrote:
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>> Curt Lundgren wrote:
>> > OK, if we're digging into the past, and if I may be so bold as to
>> > suggest a slight expansion of the topic, in what year did you get
>> > y
Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
On Sunday 07 February 2010 07:31:11 am Jim Peterson wrote:
Howard, I always spelled Packard-Bell like this: T-R-A-S-H
On Feb 6, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Howard Coles wrote:
I used a BBS on the early nineties (93 I think it was) called Stinger. I
still have the "dhcolesj" at
On Sunday 07 February 2010 07:31:11 am Jim Peterson wrote:
> Howard, I always spelled Packard-Bell like this: T-R-A-S-H
>
> On Feb 6, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Howard Coles wrote:
> > I used a BBS on the early nineties (93 I think it was) called Stinger. I
> > still have the "dhcolesj" at stinger dot or
Howard, I always spelled Packard-Bell like this: T-R-A-S-H
On Feb 6, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Howard Coles wrote:
> I used a BBS on the early nineties (93 I think it was) called Stinger. I
> still have the "dhcolesj" at stinger dot org address. My first PC was an IBM
> clone 8086 with DOS 3.3 and a
