Andrettigto
Experienced Member
Hello everyone, my name's Carlos from Toronto, Canada and I'm 51. Like most of you, I too respect computers, old and new.
In my teen years, banks were a place for my employer to deposit my part time pay check. Shortly after this, I would go in, stand in line and take it out again. Jeez, just give me the cash.
By the time I finished school and started working full time, I found another use for banks. "What do you need the money for?" asked the loans officer. Without hesitation I replied "An IBM computer". It was my first loan and the year was 1981. Even after I placed my order, I still had to wait over six weeks. If I remember right, I bought the "Technical Reference" manual well before the product launch.
It was like no computer I had seen before. From the packaging to the build quality, 4.77Mhz of pure beauty. 16k ram, 160k single sided floppy and "all points addressable" 640x200 graphics! It can't get any better than this. And the best part? It was a 16 bit system (internally anyway).
There's always been the Ford and Chevy camps. Suddenly, there was the Apple and IBM (soon just PC) camps. But IBM PC's were better, they had 8 more bits.
I still have my 5150, tucked safely away in its comfy packaging. The only thing that's missing is the 5150 logo on the back. It always takes it's rightful place on the front of my ever changing current system!
In my teen years, banks were a place for my employer to deposit my part time pay check. Shortly after this, I would go in, stand in line and take it out again. Jeez, just give me the cash.
By the time I finished school and started working full time, I found another use for banks. "What do you need the money for?" asked the loans officer. Without hesitation I replied "An IBM computer". It was my first loan and the year was 1981. Even after I placed my order, I still had to wait over six weeks. If I remember right, I bought the "Technical Reference" manual well before the product launch.
It was like no computer I had seen before. From the packaging to the build quality, 4.77Mhz of pure beauty. 16k ram, 160k single sided floppy and "all points addressable" 640x200 graphics! It can't get any better than this. And the best part? It was a 16 bit system (internally anyway).
There's always been the Ford and Chevy camps. Suddenly, there was the Apple and IBM (soon just PC) camps. But IBM PC's were better, they had 8 more bits.
I still have my 5150, tucked safely away in its comfy packaging. The only thing that's missing is the 5150 logo on the back. It always takes it's rightful place on the front of my ever changing current system!