On 4/17/2011 5:22 PM, Cheryl wrote:
> On 4/17/2011 5:32 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 17/04/2011 5:14 PM, Nad R wrote:
>>
>>> Starting in the Late seventies, TRS-80 Model 1, 4k ram, cassette
>>> storage.
>>> Later Apple IIe, Apple IIc, Power Mac 7100/66, Power Book G4 and an iPad
>>> model 1.
>>>
>>> My favorite was the Power Mac 7100/66 was loaded and cost $5,000 for
>>> hardware alone. It served me well for ten years before the operating
>>> system
>>> truly became obsolete.
>>>
>>> Right now, I love this little portable iPad that is now my favorite.
>>
>>
>> My first computer was a Coco II from Radio Shack. It didn't take long to
>> realize how useless Radio Shack is. I ended up getting an XT. I can't
>> believe the prices I paid for that machine and accessories, but I sure
>> am glad that prices have plummeted. I paid less for this laptop than I
>> did for a 20 meg hard drive for that computer.
>>
>
> My first computer was something they called a clone. 386, 2 mb RAM, 40
> MB HD. I only wanted DOS OS but I found something called Windows on it
> and decided to check it out. It cost well over $1200. I used that
> computer for more than 10 years. I learned a lot about hardware working
> on that thing. Over the years I replaced the RAM, the hard drive, added
> another one as a slave, installed a CD ROM and zip drive, the
> motherboard, swapped out the CPU (Evergreen) and added a fan, and then
> the power supply when the original one started smoking and shut down.
> During that computer's life, it went from the original DOS with Windows
> 3.1, WFW, Windows NT 3.5 because I acquired a set of diskettes, and
> Windows 2000 was the final OS.
>
> I only use laptops now, and I've never done more to them than add memory.
>
My first computer was an Osborne One, bought in 1982, cost over $1700.00
at the time. Bought and Epson MX80FT dot matrix printer with Graftrax at
the same time, another $750.00. The O1 had CPM installed, looked like a
portable sewing machine, had a five-inch screen between two 5 1/4 inch
disc drives and NO hard drive at all. In 1986 I bought a Packard Bell XT
clone that worked fine and had a 10 MB hard drive. Wow! What a
difference. Can't even remember the version of Windows on the XT,
probably 3.1 or less.

This four-year old desktop I'm typing on has more processing speed and
storage than both those old dogs put together but they were the top of
the line as far as I was concerned at the time I got each one.

The O1 is still running, gave it to a friend and his granddaughter plays
with it a lot. The XT fried itself one dark night. We're in our early
seventies and there are two laptops and a desktop running in this old
house most days. I like to multi-task and it makes it easier to do the
technical writing that is my retirement job sitting in the den with the
Dell laptop kicking along.

I'm not a geek, just a very satisfied user.