On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:57:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'll add to the young guy stories. > > I was born in 1979 :). My first computer was a Commodore 64. In high > school I had a 486/66DX. My first experience on dialup was with a 14.4k > modem on Compuserve when they gave you a obnixious address like > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we're telling young guy stories... I was born in 1980, and my first computer was a TRS-80 Model I which was also 'born' in 1980 (i didn't get it until 1990 though). The disk drive was kind of flaky (and with disk corruption, I had to swap disks 3 or 4 times during the boot to get around read errors), so most of the time I saved things to audio cassette. A few years later I got an IBM with a ROM date of 1982 and working 5.25" disk drives. My first computer with an actual hard drive (and windows (3.11) and a 14.4k modem) came along in 95. No compuserve though. Mid-1998 got me a nicer computer (which pretends to be a router in the other room now) with windows 98, and January 1999 got me Debian installed on the thing. (: Now I have another computer, a laptop, and a Super Nintendo (: No Linux on the SNES though. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
