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Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
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The Real Bev wrote:
>> songbird wrote:
>>>>
>>>> IBM-PC (81-82 era), no graphics at first, eventually had a
>>>> Hercules monochrome widget put in it.  made sure it was full of
>>>> memory.
>
> Ooh, I remember when "Hercules graphics" was a plus.

  i rarely even did anything that used it,
but i got it for free when someone else was
scrapping a machine (same with the faster
clocked CPU).

  there was a guy in the mining department 
running a pretty fancy color graphics PC at
the time which spoiled most monochrome for
me...  then the Amiga came along.  how i pined
for one of those, but never got into them (too
busy with work and classes to have yet another
PC hobby).


>>>> eventually added a 40M hard drive and a faster clocked CPU.
>
> First hard drives were a pair of 5MB drives for the NEC APC.  If you
> wanted to install a second one you had to bend several pins (voiding the
> warranty, of course) and god help you if you did it wrong or broke one.
>
> A friend had a Winchester in his basement that, even upstairs in his 
> living room, sounded like a 747 taking off when he turned it on.

  i have a stack of old hard drives, but that
one was still in the machine when i gave it away.
i'm pretty sure it was a Winchester and sounded 
similar.  :)

  considering the many hours of use i got from
that machine, even if it was very expensive, it
was still well worth it.


  songbird