[TR] Cheers!

[Michael Porter]

On 4/17/2017 5:30 PM, Ken Gano wrote:
> Ok, first computer was a Tandy TRS 80, model II. 64k ram and two 8" 
> floppy drives, circa, 1983. The program (yes, one) was a word 
> processor and was loaded via the a drive. I am not sure I ever used 
> the b drive. It was $4k+ ($15kin today's dollars) ' I remember because 
> I had to take out a bank loan to buy it, but I am pretty sure it was 
> the first computer in a law office downstate.  I remember the deciding 
> factor was that is "supported" capital letter (the first Apple did not).
>

The start-up I worked for around that same time bought two barebones IBM 
PCs, 16-color, two 5-1/2" floppy drives each and a couple of IBM 
two-color dot-matrix printers.  They paid list, $7K each, for the 
computers alone.  Since they'd put virtually all of their money into 
hardware, they only had WordPerfect and 1-2-3 to run on it.  I mostly 
used the XT clone that the company we shared a building with owned, 
after hours.  They paid a lot less for that (half, I think), so they had 
money for software--Lotus Symphony, AutoCAD 2.0, even Leisure Suit 
Larry.  :)  I used their AutoCAD a lot--they were happy to let me since 
I did little machining and fabricating jobs for them from time to time.

The first computer I could afford myself, I built from pieces in 1990--a 
386SX with a math coprocessor and 2MB RAM, 40meg hard drive, big and 
small floppy drives, an NEC 800x600 monitor and an ATI video card, and a 
2400 baud modem.  I thought it was the cat's ass.  Then the bug caught 
me, and in 1994, I built a dual-Pentium running NT, with a 300MB hard 
drive and 8 megs of RAM, a 17" 1024x768 Viewsonic and so-called, then, 
true-color video.  Got my money's worth out of that one.  It ran eleven 
years of hard use before the on-board keyboard controller died.


Cheers.

-- 


Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....

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