Ok, so after asking around that wasn't an Alto that I saw, but a derivative called the Lillith which was used as a Modula-2 developement platform.
On May 19, 9:57 pm, Sterling <[email protected]> wrote: > A couple of other things that your comments are causing to bubble up > in my memory: > > I remember going to a building in Provo, UT where Richard Ohran, Dr. > Wirth and a few others from Xerox Park in Europe had this company > called Modula Corp. > I was shown around the room and they had a couple of these funny > looking machines that had displays in portrait mode (tall) and this > input device you moved around with your hand. > > I didn't really realise what I had seen until I grew up and went to > college and studied languages like Modula and learned about how Apple > received their inspiration from the Alto machines (I believe it was > called). > > Of course the Lisa was much much more than the Alto ever was, but it > was interesting to have seen the future back then in person. > > On May 19, 4:10 pm, Sterling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > My first experience was kinda funny (but not so much when it > > happened). > > > My best friend and neighbor got an Atari 800 game system with Pac Man > > and a few other cool games. > > I wanted one sooooo bad. I told my parents and hoped for the best. > > > Christmas came around and I went downstairs Christmas morning to see > > what Santa had brought. > > > To my utter disappointment it wasn't an Atari. > > It was this ugly looking thing with a keyboard and paddles. > > On the green monitor was this PacMan like game called Snack Attack. > > It was an Apple II Plus. > > > I now thank my father who purchased the machine to develop on back in > > the 80's. > > That kick started my interest in programming and I was hooked on > > computers ever since. > > > My next experience was again my father pretending to be a software > > engineer. > > He purchased this $10,000 ugly box called a Lisa. > > It had no games and virtually no software of interest to me. > > > Again, I thank him now for being on the leading curve, though I > > really, REALLY wish I still had that Lisa. > > > After my father lost the courage/motivation to develop anything on it, > > I took it over and turned it into a Mac XL. > > > Finally my I managed to guide my father in purchasing a Mac 128k > > system, and later a Plus. > > I still remember the day my Atari ST friend introduced me to his HUGE > > hard drive (forgot how large it was) and the local computer recyclers > > store he purchased it from. > > When I realized my Mac Plus could use it on SCSI I had to have one. > > I went down there and purchased this large brick of a HD that gave me > > 100MB of storage. > > I think I managed to put every piece of software ever written for the > > Mac on it at one time in the late 1980's. > > > I used the Mac Plus, the old Mac XL and another Mac XL I bought to > > create and run a local Mac BBS called Night Flight and later Twin > > Towers in Utah (hence all the pirated software I'm sad to admit). > > > I left to live in Germany for a couple of years and then went to > > college where I sold Mac II's and LC's and components to put me > > through the computer science program at Brigham Young University. > > > Now I own a PC. > > > LOL! > > > On May 19, 3:35 pm, Cyrus Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > When my parents were in college, they were still programming on > > > punchcards! That must have been crazy! My dad said he remembers way > > > back when, and the important guy at work had a Lisa in his office... > > > (Which was kinda almost a Mac, right? :) > > > > Elliott (Formerly Cyrus) > > > -------------------- > > > Hobbittech.com Mac Specialist - Low Cost Mac Services in AZ > > > > On May 19, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Stro wrote: > > > > > On May 19, 10:12 am, Cyrus Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I remember my dad got his first Mac when I was four... He got a used > > > >> Performa 550, if I remember correctly. ('93, all in one, 33Mhz '030) > > > >> Wow that must've been '95 that we got it? Crazy. Before that we had > > > >> an > > > >> Atari 800. The Atari still works, too. > > > >> Man we had so much fun with that Performa! It had a microphone, and > > > >> we > > > >> recorded a ton of stuff on it. I think we had System 7.5.5 on it.... > > > >> Good times, good times. :) The screen went out eventually. :( > > > > >> (I'm guessing this is the old Mac reminiscing thread?) > > > > >> Cyrus Griffin > > > >> -------------------- > > > >> Hobbittech.com Mac Specialist - Low Cost Mac Services in AZ > > > > >> On May 19, 2009, at 6:00 AM, Christian Wacker wrote: > > > > >>> you are bringing back memories of my 4th-8th grade expierence... all > > > >>> the wayyy back in 2001 > > > > >>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>>> I remember back before the Mac Plus. I taught at a high school > > > >>>> where they > > > >>>> had several Apple IIE’s that they would lend out on weekends and > > > >>>> they also > > > >>>> had a couple of Apple II C’s, a “portable” machine that I actually > > > >>>> used to > > > >>>> write a novella on. It worked out to 250 one sided pages that I > > > >>>> printed out > > > >>>> on a daisy wheel printer that was hooked to an Apple III at school. > > > >>>> Interesting times they were. > > > > >>>> Doug > > > > > I go back even further. When I started college my major was computer > > > > science. Computer science majors used the mainframe and nonmajors > > > > used Apple II. That was in the early 80s. I also remember when the > > > > girlfriend of one of my frat brothers got the first Mac and kept it at > > > > our house. I guess that is when I got hooked on Apple/Macs. I got my > > > > first one in 93, it was an LCII. > > > > > Lee- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. 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