[thechat] Ancient computers (was: IT is here!)

[Norman Bunn]

First PC - Seequa Chameleon  (1984)
30 lb portable, 256KB RAM, 2 360K 5-1/4 floppy drives and 9-inch monochrome 
screen.
Ran 8086 chip for DOS and Z80 chip for CPM.
$3000 (ouch!)

First computer ever used, IBM mainframe, SC State College (1971-72).  Had 
to swap out the disk drive when I wanted to run my Fortran code.  I was a 
senior in high school.

Yes, he's that old!

Norman


>The first computer I ever used was a BBC Micro B with 32K of RAM in 1986. :)
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>10 computers in our school computer lab used a shared floppy disk drive.
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>Oh, those days...
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>Madhu