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My first computer
I purchased in 1982, was a CPM machine called a Kaypro portable!
http://oldcomputers.net/kayproii.html
Weighed in at 30+ pounds and was as big as a suitcase. Memory was a 64k floppy disk and software consisted of a word processing program, simple spreadsheet and a primitive database program (if my memory is correct).
To write a letter, you had to "write" the letter, then "format" the letter, which was quite a daunting task for a new user.
Cost? Only $2500!
Oh yes, before you could use the floppies for storage of data, you had to "format" them.
Look where technology has come in only 20 years!
http://oldcomputers.net/kayproii.html
Weighed in at 30+ pounds and was as big as a suitcase. Memory was a 64k floppy disk and software consisted of a word processing program, simple spreadsheet and a primitive database program (if my memory is correct).
To write a letter, you had to "write" the letter, then "format" the letter, which was quite a daunting task for a new user.
Cost? Only $2500!
Oh yes, before you could use the floppies for storage of data, you had to "format" them.
Look where technology has come in only 20 years!
GEM
"Do or do not. there is no try!"
"Do or do not. there is no try!"
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This was the very first PC I ever worked on..
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=409
That is, if you could call it a "PC"...
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=409
That is, if you could call it a "PC"...
There's a bit of Metablade in all of us.
