Windows Rant

[James Takac]

Hi

On Monday 12 July 2010 11:26:02 chris wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 10:41 +1000, James Takac wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Monday 12 July 2010 05:27:09 A. Jorge Garcia wrote:
> > > > Please don't tell me it was for Lotus 1-2-3 or Wordperfect.
> > >
> > > Believe it or not, we did do a lot with BASIC, Lotus, WordStar and
> > > DBase in those days....  Well, before we had PCs, we had GIMIX (like an
> > > early Linux that ran UNIX apps on a mini computer) and dumb
> > > terminals....
> > >
> > > I remember getting Windows 2.0 on multiple floppy disks (the real
> > > floppy 5.25" disks with cardboard covers) for free at PC Expo in
> > > Manhattan in 1989?
> > >
> > > Anyone remember PCs before Windows and the Web??
> > >
> > > Anyone remember SneakerNet and PCs without hard drives or graphics???
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > A. Jorge Garcia
> > > http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
> > > http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
> > >
> > > Teacher & Professor
> > > Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
> > > Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College
> >
> > Well, I can remember the likes of the ole TRS-80 Level 1 with a whopping
> > 4K of ram, tape drive, 128 x 48 monochrome graphics, etc and using the
> > old free BBS's  before I ever knew of the net
> >
> > James
>
> or the sinclair which set this part of the world alight.  z80 processor
> no less.
> Tape drive using cassette audio tapes.
> Can't remember the rest of the specs.  Still got an old serial port
> mouse around from a very early Sanyo based on the XT
>
> --
> Cheers the kiwi


Had one of them as well. Think it had 48K and I got the microdrives for it. 
Prior to that was the ole Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 series. Had also the ole Vic 
20, Commodore 64, Dick Smith Wizard, Sinclair QL, and Texas Instruments TI 
99-4A

James