Sharkonwheels
Veteran Member
Been posting, no intro, so here it is....
I guess some of the posts have given away my age - 38 at present, and rapidly accelerating :D
First exposure was in Junior High / High School, TRS-80s.
First home PC was a Timex Sinclair 1000
I grew up in the era where everywhere you wentm you saw the TV_connected home computers for sale: the TI 99/4a's, the Commodores, the Sinclairs, etc... Yes, I was one of those that typed:
10 PRINT "HELLO ";
20 GOTO 10
on every one I saw
after the Sinclair, my grandfather bought me a TRS-80 COCO2 64K, and I was HOOKED. I still have that one, though it is non-functional for many years now, and have a massive CoCo3 setup, including an FD502 controller, Burke & Burke XT hard disk interface, with a 32Mb RLL drive, Cloud-9 TC3 SCSI+CLock.
Over the years, I've owned everything from Altairs and IMSAI's (man - why'd I ever sell those?!?!?!?) to kaypro 2/IV/10's, Tandy 4P's, multiple iterations of PC's.
By trade, I'm an IT guy, of course. I'm in charge of Casino systems for a major cruise line.
My current stash is some older Macs, a pristine Osborne 1 with many options, software, amd manuals, about a half-dozen or so pocket computersand some TI and HP calculators,
4 SGI Indy's, and SGI Indigo2 Extreme, and an SGI Iris Indigo.
Yes, I love SGI's.
No, I tried RS/6000's, don't like AIX.
No, I tried a few HP-UX machines, don't like HP-UX. Gave away my media, matter of fact (10.20, and 11i)
Yes, I was one of the nuts that bought Coherent in the early 90's.
Yes, I'm old enough to have installed 386BSD when it was released by the Jolitz'!
Yes, I do still own the 4.4 BSD manual set.
Yes, I do remember playing with Linux when it was only a boot and root floppy.
I've always been a CP/M buff, and have ALWAYS had SOMETHING in the house that was CP/M.
I don't think that will ever change, hardware-survival willing.
Tony
I guess some of the posts have given away my age - 38 at present, and rapidly accelerating :D
First exposure was in Junior High / High School, TRS-80s.
First home PC was a Timex Sinclair 1000
I grew up in the era where everywhere you wentm you saw the TV_connected home computers for sale: the TI 99/4a's, the Commodores, the Sinclairs, etc... Yes, I was one of those that typed:
10 PRINT "HELLO ";
20 GOTO 10
on every one I saw
after the Sinclair, my grandfather bought me a TRS-80 COCO2 64K, and I was HOOKED. I still have that one, though it is non-functional for many years now, and have a massive CoCo3 setup, including an FD502 controller, Burke & Burke XT hard disk interface, with a 32Mb RLL drive, Cloud-9 TC3 SCSI+CLock.
Over the years, I've owned everything from Altairs and IMSAI's (man - why'd I ever sell those?!?!?!?) to kaypro 2/IV/10's, Tandy 4P's, multiple iterations of PC's.
By trade, I'm an IT guy, of course. I'm in charge of Casino systems for a major cruise line.
My current stash is some older Macs, a pristine Osborne 1 with many options, software, amd manuals, about a half-dozen or so pocket computersand some TI and HP calculators,
4 SGI Indy's, and SGI Indigo2 Extreme, and an SGI Iris Indigo.
Yes, I love SGI's.
No, I tried RS/6000's, don't like AIX.
No, I tried a few HP-UX machines, don't like HP-UX. Gave away my media, matter of fact (10.20, and 11i)
Yes, I was one of the nuts that bought Coherent in the early 90's.
Yes, I'm old enough to have installed 386BSD when it was released by the Jolitz'!
Yes, I do still own the 4.4 BSD manual set.
Yes, I do remember playing with Linux when it was only a boot and root floppy.
I've always been a CP/M buff, and have ALWAYS had SOMETHING in the house that was CP/M.
I don't think that will ever change, hardware-survival willing.
Tony
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