Just for grins, let's laugh about my first computer. It was a heathkit h/z89/90 with a single sided floppy and HDOS operating system. I got CP/M for it, a couple of double sided floppy disk drives and a memory board with a meg of memory. I put nearly $2,000 into that little machine and used it for about 10 years and wrote my own speech program for it in CP/M. It was nothing to brag about but it was fun to play with. Oh yes, I also used a type-n-talk speech synthesizer and liked it. The first hard drive I heard of was an 8 meg drive and I thought that was great because it would hold about 10 to 20 or even 40 of the floppies. We even looked seriously at 8 inch floppy drives though I only used one of those at work. I wonder if the ancients talked like this about different types of wheels? Enjoy! Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 7:13 PM Subject: Re: Off topic, just have to vent! > Well, I learned to type on an apple 2e with 2 disk2 floppy drives and > talking typer from APH with one of those echo synths. Hated it! Used to make > it crash and make the teacher come over and fix it for me even though I new > how. Sources tell me that it's still in the "Computer Lab". > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 6:36 PM > Subject: Re: Off topic, just have to vent! > > > > Ah well now, my first machine was a 286 IBM ps/2 2011-c34 with 1 mb of RAM > and a 30 mb hd. I still have it too, though you can't do much with DOS and > such a small amount of resources. It's in good condition too, I just need to > get hold of a floppy drive to replace the original. > > > > Well, that's all from me about my first machine. > > Greg > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 04:44:30PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote: > > > The slowest notebook I have now is a toshiba 75 mhz with 800 megs of > hdd. > > > I'm thinking of putting linux on it. Toshibas are good machines. My > first > > > computer was a 386/8 mhz with 80 mb disk. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Toby Fisher" <toby_fisher at bigfoot.com> > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 5:31 AM > > > Subject: Re: Off topic, just have to vent! > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Alex Snow wrote: > > > > > > > > > Can anyone tell me if this deal on a 486 notebook really sux? I > think > > > > > it does. Found it on pricewatch.com: (Not New) REFURBISHED - 4400C, > > > > > 1Year Labor/90days Parts Ltd. Warranty 486/25,8MB/200MB Hard Drive, > > > > > 1.44 Floppy, Active Color,Serial/Parallel ports no adapter included > > > > > (Part - T4400C ) $ 89 I mean, what are you supposed to do with that? > > > > > Linux will barely run on it. If someone offered me one for free, > I'd > > > > > take it. but not for $89. > > > > > > > > Hmmm, probably the biggest problem there is the hdd, and you'll > probably > > > > find that most of that $89 is for the lcd display. Still, it'll > handle > > > > Linux ok, but your bigbgest problem would probably be the lack of a > cdrom > > > > drive, though I do believe that the Slakware A disk series will still > go > > > > onto floppies, which is the minimum neededc to get get system up, so > you > > > > can install over the net or whatever. Wouldn't go for it personally > > > > though, as I have a 486 notebook with higher spec. > > > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > > > > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > > > > ICQ: #61744808 > > > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > > > > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
