Comments on: IBM XT http://evendays.org/2007/02/20/my-first-computer/ 200 words more or less every other day about life in Lausanne… www.evendays.org Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:10:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Brad Palmore http://evendays.org/2007/02/20/my-first-computer/#comment-1175 Brad Palmore Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:20:10 +0000 http://evendays.org/2007/02/20/my-first-computer/#comment-1175 Ah... computing memories. How much I adore them. (QWERTY gets it's name from the first 6 keys from the left on the top row of the American keyboard.) Ah… computing memories. How much I adore them. (QWERTY gets it’s name from the first 6 keys from the left on the top row of the American keyboard.)

]]> By: Stoogelover http://evendays.org/2007/02/20/my-first-computer/#comment-1176 Stoogelover Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:05:26 +0000 http://evendays.org/2007/02/20/my-first-computer/#comment-1176 My first computer was an Amstrad. It used a floppy disk that was a little larger than the standard PC floppy, but the floppy actually contained the operating system for the computer. It came with a monitor (green on black) and a small dox matrix printer. Did absolutely nothing other than text documents. But it had one feature that allowed the user to assign a word or a phrase to a particular key, so you programmed often used words or phrases to certain keys and that saved time ... if you could remember which word / phrase was assigned to which key! My first computer was an Amstrad. It used a floppy disk that was a little larger than the standard PC floppy, but the floppy actually contained the operating system for the computer. It came with a monitor (green on black) and a small dox matrix printer. Did absolutely nothing other than text documents. But it had one feature that allowed the user to assign a word or a phrase to a particular key, so you programmed often used words or phrases to certain keys and that saved time … if you could remember which word / phrase was assigned to which key!

]]> By: randy http://evendays.org/2007/02/20/my-first-computer/#comment-1177 randy Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:23:06 +0000 http://evendays.org/2007/02/20/my-first-computer/#comment-1177 Fun stuff, keep it coming every other day or so in under 200 words . . . My first computer cost me $2500 (who knows how much more with interest) but it had dual floppy drives and a 10meg hard drive. 10 megs? I actually said, I'll never fill this thing up! Fun stuff, keep it coming every other day or so in under 200 words . . .

My first computer cost me $2500 (who knows how much more with interest) but it had dual floppy drives and a 10meg hard drive. 10 megs? I actually said, I’ll never fill this thing up!

]]> By: Brady http://evendays.org/2007/02/20/my-first-computer/#comment-1178 Brady Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:37:36 +0000 http://evendays.org/2007/02/20/my-first-computer/#comment-1178 Brad: Computing memories are fun. In French-speaking Switzerland, the first six keys are QWERTZ, so I was just funnin' 'bout the spelling thing. Greg: I really, really coveted the Amstrad. It was by far the best word processor out there for the price. They were impossible to find in Switzerland, but my friend from Scotland actually checked on them there to send me one later if I wanted. I didn't crack, but almost did. Randy: The same thing happens to me with EVERY new computer. But now, it really is getting hard to fill up that hard drive with just sermons… Brad: Computing memories are fun. In French-speaking Switzerland, the first six keys are QWERTZ, so I was just funnin’ ’bout the spelling thing.

Greg: I really, really coveted the Amstrad. It was by far the best word processor out there for the price. They were impossible to find in Switzerland, but my friend from Scotland actually checked on them there to send me one later if I wanted. I didn’t crack, but almost did.

Randy: The same thing happens to me with EVERY new computer. But now, it really is getting hard to fill up that hard drive with just sermons…

]]> By: cwinwc http://evendays.org/2007/02/20/my-first-computer/#comment-1179 cwinwc Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:52:47 +0000 http://evendays.org/2007/02/20/my-first-computer/#comment-1179 I remember when our computer lab was "equipped" with the latest Commodore Computers from Radio Shack. I remember when our computer lab was “equipped” with the latest Commodore Computers from Radio Shack.

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