Vintage Computing

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Comment by rich on January 4, 2009 at 9:48am

Hi,all I was just setting here reading about some of the computors you guys had to deal with. The first one I dealt with handled the navigation and weapons system on a military naval aircraft in the early 70's. It was not much of a computor by todays standards but did it's job. I worked on radio equipment for a few years after I got out but didn't have anything to do with computors untill I met my wife in the late 90's. I think the first one I bought her was a 486 and got upgraded to a 586,the only thing I remember is it spent more time at the repair shop then it did on the bench. Not to say it was the computors fault because my wife used to move files around C and mess it up all the time,lol. I really wasn't even interested then untill several years lator we bought and old dell at a garage sale and spent more having it fixed then it cost. I think it came with win 95 and the guy upgraded it to win98. Ah,here comes the mistake,he put a bunch of games in the thing.Well I saw my wife playing all those slot machine games so I got interested in play games on the thing too. Well of course it wasn't long till we had to have a better computor and the rest is history. I am not a programmer,I had enought trouble with learning the math with a sliderule in tech school,however I vagley remember something about boolean algraba. I feel like i'm really doing good just to get may vista laptop to do what i need it to do,lol. thanx,Rich

Comment by James Smith on January 3, 2009 at 8:10pm

For me it was the Commodore. I started with a Vic-20 and went to a Commie 64. On the Vic I learned to program in Commodore BASIC, which was a bit of a maddening experience. Compared to Microsoft's Visual Basic it was like programming in machine language , but I never had so much fun with a computer.
I was also a big user of Q-Link (the mother of AOL) and ran up obscene bills at their 10 cent per minute rate.
But back then it was all new and fun, without the dark side of Internet predators, spam and viruses. Progress, huh?