On 10/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Diana A. Clarion</b> <<a href="mailto:dclarion@fnordnet.net">dclarion@fnordnet.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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this talk of age-showing got me to a little reminiscing, part of that
involving the machines I've worked. Just for the halibut,
I'm wondering what was the first machine you folks worked.<br><br>I'll start: HP 2116C, in 1970 (BASIC, FORTRAN, assembly language)</blockquote><div><br>
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<font size="-1">Summer 1983<br>
</font><font size="-1">TI-99/4A - Ah I loved those cartridges :-) First
time I saw a programming language too, BASIC, didn't study it though
until 9th grade. Ah the folly of youth. They had some really cool
educational software.and fun games.<br>
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</font><font size="-1">1984/1985<br>
</font><font size="-1">First Apple Macintosh. Elementary school, played with LOGO.<br>
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1987<br>
</font><font size="-1">Tandy 1000 (8088 processor) - Used it up
until and through 1st year college. Ah connecting at 2400bps with
ProCOMM to read email using pine (remote) or EzMail (local- CMU PC
client) :) Yes it still works fine and had never needed any
maintenance. They don't build workhorses like that anymore unless you
pay MUCHO bucks!<br>
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Also used some late '70s terminals for dialup. DEC VT100, Wyse50, and some old Honeywell.<br>
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Anyone have experience with these?<br>
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Zach</font><br>
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