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Raveninghorde wrote:
> 
> The first computer I bought for my business in 1979 was an Apple II
> with a Microsoft Z80 plugin, 9" monitor, and floppy drive. It cost
> around �1000. We run cpm and used edlin and the assembler for software
> development. Even in 1979 we saw the benefit of a hardware independent
> OS.
> 
> In 1982 we got our first couple of IBM compatables from Columbia Data
> Products along with Z80 plug ins so we could still run the same cpm
> programs.

   My first computer was the Timex/Sinclair ZX81, followed by the RS
Micro color 10. I had a couple TI99-4A computers, followed by a VIC-20,
then my first C64.  A friend of mine bought a half dozen dead ones from
his computer club in Ohio, and I started fixing them.  Then I found a
SX64 in a sealed carton being closed out.  A few months later a
prototype C128 was on display at the Dayton hamfest, and I had to wait
six months to buy one.

   Over the years I had collected a lot of early PCs, including the KIM,
which was a development platform for the 6502.  I found it in an old
piece of medical equipment.  I also had a dozen Boards from early
inventory terminals with working 4004 chip sets.

   A place I worked in the early '80s wanted me to use a crappy Atari
800 to track inventory but the piece of crap took about six minutes to
resort the database every time you made a change so it took longer to
enter a repair, than to do it.

   The strangest computers I owned were made by National Semiconductor
for POS systems. I had two computers, twelve cash registers and ten
laser scanners.  Everything was wired with something like 10 or 12 pair
shielded cable.

   My first PC was around 1990, and built from a pile of bad or used
parts that I repaired.  Then I found out the hard way that the original
XT motherboard didn't have a fuse for the keyboard.  The keyboard cable
caught on fire when it failed.


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