Oldest ubuntu user?

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alex wrote:
> ABD Computer Installations wrote:
> 
>> alex ,
>>     Judging here by the comments we have quite a few veterans.
>> I humbly add myself starting in late 84 with a Vic20 (programming in 
>> basic) then upgraded to the commodore 16 (some called the plus 4), and 
>> dabbled bits in the amstrad sinclar ,  I then moved on to the 
>> commodore 64 (which I too did a little assembly and machine code), 
>> which then went to the commodore 128 (that I didn't get) .
>> I moved in 88 to Apple II and the Apple IIc until windows 3 which 
>> basically everybody knows from here onwards, I have used basically 
>> everything onwards up to Debian (ubuntu).
>>
>> It was a great 20 years of Compute'ring and progression.
>> Ubuntu is cool , this is the only distro I have never had to configure 
>> anything what so ever ,so from that aspect I was a little disappointed .
>> :(
>> never the less everything just works like magic. (Linux Magic) !!!
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Cheers all
>>
> ubuntu is an excellent system.  My first attempt was a flop---I did 3 
> installs and ended up with a lot of locked files each time.  It wasn't 
> until I borrowed another CD and had a perfect system that I examined my 
> CD and discovered a very tiny black spot (0.1 mm) that  I scraped off 
> with a fingernail.  That CD then booted perfectly and now ubuntu works 
> fine.
> 
> Yes, I had a lot of fun with the Commodore 64.  I wrote a program to 
> send and receive Morse code for ham radio that was able to read code 
> that was buried in noise.  I wish I could do assembly with this machine 
> but it's a lot more difficult than with the C64.   I'd like to do 
> programming but too many things get in the way, especially Linux.   I 
> install and remove Linux systems, sometimes I have 6 or 7 and sometimes 
> just one..  Right now I have two KNOPPIX, SuSE9.1, and ubuntu.
> 
> I had an old Qunatex that ran Linux very easily but then I got a gift 
> computer from my kids and it's a chore sometimes to install Linux.  I 
> had to install an external modem for Linux
> 
> I take it that you enjoyed the old computers.  I did.
I really enjoyed it , I have todays computer knowledge from those days 
to thank, as if wasnt for them I would have had to learn twice as much 
in shorter time.
I started Computers when I was 12 on the commodore 16 , I wrote a small 
program (100 lines or so) very similar to paddle tennis. which I then 
saved onto a datasette . This was before floppy disks where available.

I prefer Linux to other operating systems due to it's stability and 
ability to use a command line. {Now basically extinct in the Windows world.}

Old dogs prefer command line for it's power to do as it's told.

:)

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> alex
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