<div dir="ltr"><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Considerably less than a Mac today, though...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 10:50, Mark Steffen <<a href="mailto:mark@steffen.ca">mark@steffen.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>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!<br>
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<div>On 2021-08-12 10:21 a.m., Ron Singh
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Oh
yeah, my 1st love --</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://oldcomputers.net/osi-600.html" target="_blank">http://oldcomputers.net/osi-600.html</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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.<br>
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<div>Thanks,<br>
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Ron S.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 9:54
AM Doug Moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org" target="_blank">doug@moens.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>My dad got an S100/CPM/Z-80 system in 1977, which was a
milestone in my life.<br>
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<div>We skipped the IBM PC, and he got a Macintosh in 1984.<br>
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<div>It was the Mac that was lifechanging for me. The PC
with DOS (which I never used) was not that different from
CPM.<br>
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<div>On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, at 8:54 AM, CrankyOldBugger
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<div>Our lives were irrevocably changed forty years ago
this month:<br>
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<div>(I started on a Vic-20, tbh... long live 4k RAM!)<br>
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