by hhomebrewer » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:51 am
My first computer was a Leading Edge Model D. It had two half-height 360Kb floppies, a 13-inch green monochrome monitor, 256Kb of RAM which I upgraded to 640Kb at great expense and a screamin' 4.77MHz 8088 chip. No speakers. No mouse. I had one software for it-- a 96Kb word-processor called EasyWriter II. I got the computer in late October of 1985 (22nd or 23rd, if I remember correctly) and used it all through college and all the way until mid-December of 1995. I used it for writing letters and reports, et cetera for my schoolwork. I never knew there was much more to do with a computer until I got the second one in 1995. That one had Windows 3.1 on it. I discovered computer games. I had US Navy Fighters and some other thing having to do with three sims sold as a boxed package, one of which was a Pitts S1 and had the scenery for a place not too far from where I lived. My second computer had a 486 DX4-100, a 636Mb hard-drive, a 14-inch color monitor, a 3.5-inch floppy, a 14Kb modem and 4Mb of RAM. I later upgraded that to 16Mb-- at great expense. After about six months of using it, I upgraded that 14Kb modem to a 28.8Kb-- again, at great expense. I remember the 28.8 cost $129 plus tax. What's a modem now-- about ten bucks? We have come so far so fast...
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