-=PCTechTalk=- Re: AppleMac is a quarter of a century old tomorrow!
- From: Disastar <disastar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:06:48 -0500
My first computer was in 1983. It was a little Radio Shack Color Computer.
It was probably more of a game playing machine than anything else but it was
all I could afford back then. But I tell you, that thing running
Microware's OS-9 operating system did multitask better than Windows does to
this day. Ahh, those were the days.
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From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tech Rose - LoveBytes
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 4:45 PM
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: AppleMac is a quarter of a century old tomorrow!
My first brush with computers was in January of 1970. I went to work for a
company who own several other related businesses. They did steel work for
construction purposes and other facets of construction materials. They
also owned the construction business who actually bid on projects and built
them, (using their own materials of course). That was a job that could have
changed my life. as I was offered a job to be the office manager in Tahiti.
I would be given a house as well as staff to care for me and my children. I
was all of 25 yrs old and was in the process of a divorce. I did not take
the job as I felt my children were Americans and should be raised
here...when they also had opportunities to see their father. (Which
happened maybe a dozen times in the next five years until I left NYC so my
kids could have a better life!)
But, in that job, they were converting over from a paper system to a
computerized system. These HUGE machines took up all of the first floor
office space!
I arrived when the system was still being installed and as they were
developing forms for data collection and testing.
I had been working on the accounting dept and this was where they were
starting the implementation. I was soooooooooooooo interested, they let me
do it...no one else had any faith or interest!
I loved it. I helped develop the codes for transactions and the forms and
run them..wow! It was like going to the moon for me.
I always said I was born 20 yrs too soon. The computer age... is the Rose
age in my book....ha ha!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
hugs,
Rose
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lilian" <lilian.oswaldocruz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:57 PM - Rose
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: AppleMac is a quarter of a century old tomorrow!
We still have a box of punch cards... from UK to Brazil :o)) But I never
used them, that was my husband´s computer. Don´t even know what it was. I
do remember having a small DOS computer, an Apricot, and remember using
Supercalc on it. Its not that different to Excel <vbg> Was my introduction
to data banks. Guess thats all in the past now... didn´t have internet at
the time and what would we do without it?
Lil
----- Original Message -----
From: Gman
My intro to computers was 27 years ago on an IBM 4331 mainframe. I still
cringe when I think of punch cards. ;)
Peace,
Gman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lilian" <lilian.oswaldocruz@xxxxxxxxx>
> My first (and only) AppleMac was 22 years ago... that sort of dates me
> <bg>
> See here
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7846575.stm
>
>
> Lil
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