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1981 Internet story
In article 1596790600396888137.859481bmckeenospam-
, says... iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 7/30/13 8:44 AM, Gogarty wrote: In article , says... (Snip) I was on CIS and for a while on another similar provider, the name of which I don't recall...wait a minute, was it The Source? I am proud that I never tried AOL.  It was The Source. Thanks for jolting my memory. Never did AOL or Compuserve. My equipment was all Radio Shack -- TRS80 and TRS100 laptop. That was a really usefful machine. Ran on AA batteries, used acoustic cups with modem. We were early computerized travellers. Really started witha huge IBM word processor in 1970. Ahh, the Trash80. Lots of my friends had that one. They all called it their Trash80. My first "computer" was an IBM MT/ST. It wasn't mine, actually, but when I worked at the teachers union, my secretary was the "operator." It was a large, clunky memory typewriter that used selectric like type balls. I had to run it on occasion on weekends to produce crap for board meetings. It was just awful. I learned Basic programming with my first PC, an IBM PC. Very frustrating at first because just about everything I input came back with "syntax error" errors. Cursed a lot...as a guy with two degrees in English, I did not make "syntax errors," but of course these were syntax errors of a completely different variety. I had a freebie account at The Source because a friend had the company as an advertising and PR account and he had "freebie" accounts to give out. My first computer was a Sinclair that you hooked to the TV. Learned DOS on it, then on to TRS-80 which wasn't an "IBM word processor" by the way, it was a Radio Shack. My first computer was an NCR 315. Filled a room. 10k decimal memory. Tape drives, and mag card ( CRAM ) for storage. 1964. First times on the net was ARPAnet with KSR33 and VT52 terminals on DEC systems. First PC was about $10,000 total. Bought for company and had disk drive and 8" floppy. Still have a recipe for spicy peanut noodles I printed out on a dot matrix printer from the Bay Area forum in about 1982. As to VisiCalc, we had DEC corp equipment at Visicorp I designed to run Edison drives. System Industries was the employer then. I remember when my brother was in college, I went to see him and he took me to the electronics lab. We went to the computer which was in a large room and he explained to me how he was going to have that computer talk to another computer at another campus and have it print an answer back. I was just amazed when the other computer printed out an answer to a math problem for him! |
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1981 Internet story
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says... On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:12:11 -0500, Califbill wrote: iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 7/30/13 8:44 AM, Gogarty wrote: In article , says... (Snip) I was on CIS and for a while on another similar provider, the name of which I don't recall...wait a minute, was it The Source? I am proud that I never tried AOL. It was The Source. Thanks for jolting my memory. Never did AOL or Compuserve. My equipment was all Radio Shack -- TRS80 and TRS100 laptop. That was a really usefful machine. Ran on AA batteries, used acoustic cups with modem. We were early computerized travellers. Really started witha huge IBM word processor in 1970. Ahh, the Trash80. Lots of my friends had that one. They all called it their Trash80. My first "computer" was an IBM MT/ST. It wasn't mine, actually, but when I worked at the teachers union, my secretary was the "operator." It was a large, clunky memory typewriter that used selectric like type balls. I had to run it on occasion on weekends to produce crap for board meetings. It was just awful. I learned Basic programming with my first PC, an IBM PC. Very frustrating at first because just about everything I input came back with "syntax error" errors. Cursed a lot...as a guy with two degrees in English, I did not make "syntax errors," but of course these were syntax errors of a completely different variety. I had a freebie account at The Source because a friend had the company as an advertising and PR account and he had "freebie" accounts to give out. My first computer was a Sinclair that you hooked to the TV. Learned DOS on it, then on to TRS-80 which wasn't an "IBM word processor" by the way, it was a Radio Shack. My first computer was an NCR 315. Filled a room. 10k decimal memory. Tape drives, and mag card ( CRAM ) for storage. 1964. First times on the net was ARPAnet with KSR33 and VT52 terminals on DEC systems. First PC was about $10,000 total. Bought for company and had disk drive and 8" floppy. Still have a recipe for spicy peanut noodles I printed out on a dot matrix printer from the Bay Area forum in about 1982. As to VisiCalc, we had DEC corp equipment at Visicorp I designed to run Edison drives. System Industries was the employer then. In the late 60s and early 70s I had just about all the mainframe time I wanted so I was writing 360 assembler in my spare time. It took a while before I figured out why I would want a computer at home. I was making purpose built machines with TTL and CMOS. I still like that idea more than using the ubiquitous PIC that everyone likes. Once we started using PCs at work, I wanted one at home. Parts were free. I just couldn't get cases. That is why most of my early machines were "woodies" My PS/2 mod 70 http://gfretwell.com/electrical/woody.jpg He said woody.... |
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