[kwlug-disc] 40 years ago?

[CrankyOldBugger]

My first corporate job was at a luggage manufacturer in Stratford.  We had
an original IBM XT with a CGA (colour!) monitor with it.  They bought it
shortly before I started there, but I found the original receipt...
$13,000.00!

Considerably less than a Mac today, though...



On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 10:50, Mark Steffen <mark at steffen.ca> wrote:

> First PC was a TRS-80 Coco2 in around 1982/3 I think.  I regret not
> getting into OS9 now I think it would have been up my alley.  Eventually
> got a C64 in 85, an Amiga in 88, a PC in 89 (I wanted to run a multiple
> phone line BBS and it seemed the best path forward to that was Galacticomm
> MajorBBS on x86).  Also in 89 I got my introduction to SCO Xenix at a
> summer job between gr8 and 9 porting some WANG BASIC+Btrieve software to
> compiled MS Basic + ISAM on Xenix, one 386 as a 'server' and we all worked
> on Wyse terminals, it was glorious.  After Xenix I realized there was a LOT
> PCs could do ... begged parents for a copy of Coherent Unix (Mark Williams
> Company) for Christmas a year later, no dice, and then of course I
> discovered Linux in, I think 91... SLS "distro" iirc, parents freaked out
> about the phone bill to download the 14 or 15 floppies worth from a seattle
> public access unix system (luckily I at least had a USR Dual Standard 14.4k
> modem lol)... those were the days!
> On 2021-08-12 10:21 a.m., Ron Singh wrote:
>
> Oh yeah, my 1st love --
> http://oldcomputers.net/osi-600.html
>
> I am just realizing how rabidly I got into computers and analogue
> electronics(later digital) in a short span of time, no wonder my parents
> then were terribly worried about me blowing all my moolah on this stuff.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron S.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 9:54 AM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
>
>> My dad got an S100/CPM/Z-80 system in 1977, which was a milestone in my
>> life.
>> We skipped the IBM PC, and he got a Macintosh in 1984.
>> It was the Mac that was lifechanging for me. The PC with DOS (which I
>> never used) was not that different from CPM.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, at 8:54 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>>
>> Our lives were irrevocably changed forty years ago this month:
>>
>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/40-years-of-the-pc/
>>
>> (I started on a Vic-20, tbh... long live 4k RAM!)
>>
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