On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 21:42 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:47:05AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: >> >> >> > What was your first computer ? >> >> BBC B. 32k ram, later expanded with 100k floppy disk. >> My loved one at the time wrote her >300 page degree >> thesis on this, printed on a loaned daisywheel printer >> using a driver written in BASIC. We used to set up >> things to print a few tens of pages and go to see a >> movie, hoping the rattling would have finished >> without a paper jam when we came back. > > that was the 2nd computer i used, after one whose name i don't quite > recall. but i do remember going to print my final year thesis in college > and starting it, waiting, doing the calculation and realizing it would > take about 1.5 days to complete. > > as they say ... good times, good times. you did your thesis on a computer? fancy. ;-) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
