Hey Larry - WOW!
I can't remember the first computer I used, at least not to find a
description of it on the web. It was a mini-computer that we used to learn
"programming" at something between machine language and assembler code. The
best accomplishment I had on that one was to get it to print out the time on
the roll of paper that fed through it. Every minute on the minute, crossing
an hour boundary for about 15 minutes with less than a two second error.
Coding was done in two character lines of code. First a letter or symbol
and second a number.
First machine I bought was from AST Research and was an IBM 286 clone that
had both the Intel 286 chip and a Zylog Z80 chip in it. That way it could
run DOS and use the other for graphics or CPM and use the other for
graphics. It was much more capable, and much more recent than the one you
posted. Everyone around me oohed and aahed at it with it's 20 meg HD and 1
meg RAM. I still remember the joy of plugging all the chips into the second
memory board to boost it to 2 meg RAM one day.
Still laughing,
Jim.
On 2/25/2012 10:51 AM, Larry DiGioia wrote:
My first:
http://www.thecorememory.com/html/ncr_decision_mate_v.html
On 02/25/2012 08:46 AM, Jim Willeke wrote:
Well, not about the computers of 1995, but,
related,
http://blog.jim.willeke.com/2012/02/comparing-today-computers-to-1995.html
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-jim
Jim Willeke
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:20 AM,<hbkeultjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Getting too far off topic Chuck but if you mean that the Amish are taxed
less or not at all, of course the sales tax on a zero TV set = zero but
otherwise federal, state, municipal and other sort of taxes have no
exemption for Amish that I know off. Otherwise I am sure George Soros would
be Amish.
Henry
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck<cstickelman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Feb 25, 2012 12:24 AM
To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ncolug] Re: Comparing today's computers to 1995's
It's amazing how not getting taxed impacts ones bottom line...
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 18:03 -0500, Henry Keultjes wrote:
Actually, that's a good analogy Mike. The Amish all have suitcases of
money under their beds while the English farmers are in debt up to
their
ears.
Henry
M. Knisely wrote:
Yeah, it's like touring an Amish farm.
Kidding... kidding.
On Feb 24, 2012 11:25 AM, "hbkeultjes"<hbkeultjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:hbkeultjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Kory:
It would be much more interesting if you came and took a look at
the hardware we still have and use!
Henry Keultjes
Mansfield Ohio USA
Kory Pounds wrote:
LUG-Nuts,
I thought this was a pretty funny, but true, article. I found
it
through Slashdot.
I am much younger than everyone else I am sending this email
to. In
1995 I only had extremely limited experience with any
computer
(from
my high school days), and those computers were very
primitive.
I knew
nothing about any computer hardware and usage standards from
that
time, neither did I currently understand what they were. That
was
until I read this article.
After reading this article, I understand the HUGE difference
in
standards that have taken place from 1995 through today. I am
sure
that everyone who is reading this email had involvement with
and owned
computer equipment in 1995. I would like to know what type of
computer
equipment you owned in 1995 and how you used it. Was what you
had then
"top of the line"? How much did it cost? What did you use it
for? Did
you do much "hacking" with it to increase performance and to
provide
any other enhancements? What type of "add-ons" did you use?
What
operating system did you have on it? What type of
intranet/Internet/online usage did you have?
I would love to see all of you share your "testimonies"
regarding this
matter. Here is the original article. Read it first then let
us know
what you think:
http://therelativelyinterestingblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/comparing-todays-computers-to-1995s.html
Thanks everyone!
Kory Pounds
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