Subj : Re: First computer stories?
To   : SirRonmit
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Jul 04 2023 11:01:00

-=> SirRonmit wrote to PainAndLoathing <=-

 Si> I don't remember seeing the original posting, so I'll reply to yours.

 I used Commodore CBM systems in high school, and bought a Commodore 64.
 I didn't do much with it except for playing games, calling BBSes and
 acting as a dial-up terminal for my CS classes. I convinced my parents
 to buy me an IBM PC XT and bought a clone XT with a 10 MB hard drive. I
 remember running SpinRite on that thing a couple of times to deal with
 formatting issues - and it was slow.

 I swapped the motherboard out for an AT motherboard, a larger hard
 drive, and that got me through college.

 My first job out of college was working for a mail-order retailer with
 a closet full of obsolete crap, and I was tasked with clearing out the
 storage closet. I found a tank of an IBM AT with a 32MB drive, and that
 became my first BBS box.

 Most of my BBS systems since then have been cast-off systems that
 people didn't want any more - from that first IBM AT, to a 386sx, to a
 486 EISA server that doubled as an end-table, to my dad's old Celeron
 533 system, and now a laptop missing keys and with a broken screen.




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