> I was born in 1936 ( makes this an ancient guy story ) > > My first "personal" computer was the TI-99-4A. I could only afford the > unit, no disk drives of any sort. I make me a "cassette drive" using a > portable cassette recorder and wired up my own connecting cable. > > Only programming language was a form of basic. Even a short program > would take over 30 minutes to load from cassette to "pc". I usually > loaded the program while I was eating supper. When I finished with my > meal, my computer would be waiting for me. > > One of my first computers that I use in my work was a mini-computer, 12 > bit words, and magnetic core memory. It used punch paper tape. It was > part of a broadcast automation system. I never did know the > manufacturer's name for the computer. > > jcj
[Jim Ray pontificates] you've got me beat by a quarter century :-) no one can say they've got more experience than the folks that have seen the industry grow up around us. thank god/allah/[insert diety of the day] we woke up today. -- 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/
