Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : claw
From : boraxman
Date : Sun Apr 24 2022 19:32:55

 cl> Yup that as my thing too.  My first PC technically was a VIC20 I got at a
 cl> garage sale but it was missing every thing and only had a couple carts
 cl> for it.  Can't really count that as much more than a console experience
 cl> for me. I wish it was more but it wasn't long after that I got an Apple
 cl> IIc.  Played around what that for hours on end making my own basic
 cl> programs and playing the occasional game.  Never got to use it with a
 cl> modem.  Then School Got Macs and I was like look at all these colors! 
 cl> Begged Dad for one and he was like nope were getting a PC.  This is when
 cl> I got in to PCs and once I did never looked back at apple again.  My
 cl> main computer was a 486SX20 with 8MB ram (upgraded) and a 170MB drive. 
 cl> I was the super kid on the block with that much space.  I actually got
 cl> the 386 after this from a friend who was a computer parts hoarder.  I
 cl> went to him and said Hay let me build a computer from all these parts
 cl> you have sitting around.  He said yes and my BBS (at least the hardware) w
 cl> 
 cl> Look you guys have me in a super nostalgic mood.  
 cl> 

 cl> DrClaw

The Vic20 was my second computer, from a garage sale soon after I got my first computer, which was also from a garage sale.  I only had a few games that came with it (SkyBlazer being my favourite), but it also had the manual, so I typed in a couple of the game listings in the back, and did a little programming, but with only a few tapes/cartridges, and being 1991, having little opportunity to buy new software, it was, as you say, like a console.  I bugged my parents for a C64 which I got soon after, and that was fun for a few years before I got into PC's.

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