RE: Old PC Technology (too long, sorry)

["Chris Vickery" <cvickery -at- arenasolutions -dot- com>]

I'd just like to mention how much I'm enjoying feeling young here. I
work in on-demand software in the California Bay Area and, at 35, I'm
practically a fossil! I reminisce about using AppleWorks on my Apple
][e, and staying up all night playing Wizardry, and my 25 year old
co-workers nod and smile--and slowly, slowly edges away from the crazy
old guy. 

So please, keep the punch card stories coming! I'm young, I'm young!


Chris

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Subject: RE: Old PC Technology (too long, sorry)




     Dori Green wrote:

     My first computer was Leading Edge, and their WP wasn't shabby.

My first computer was also a Leading Edge, complete with a 5M HD, 640 K
of
RAM and a screaming 4.77M 8088. Leading Edge's word process was based on
Wang's word processor (made sense since a lot of the people at Leading
Edge
were from Wang). I also had a Brother Daisy-wheel printer 'cause editors
didn't like reading dot matrix text. The system also came with a
flat-file
data base and a Lotus 123 clone (can't remember it's name...hey, that
was in
1984). Prior to my first "personal computer," I enjoyed many a day
writing
text using "VI" on a DEC-PDP1170/VAX750 based system, and on a beta
Fortune
32:16 Xenix-based system that used Wang emulation. The only problem with
the
Fortune was if you used the "Delete" command in the Glossaries (macros)
the
system would slowly eat away your document one word at a time. The only
way
to stop the munching was to kill the machine.

Slow, noisy, cumbersome...those were the days.


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