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Originally Posted by CapnScurvy

'Course I've had a computer for so long my first two computers didn't have hard drives in them. Not that I couldn't afford one, but there just wasn't such a thing back in the mid 70's. If you wanted to play a game (like making a ball bounce from corner to corner), you had do use a program called DOS Basic and type in the program. The game would run from the computers RAM memory. Every space had to be right, every dot, every letter, or the program would hang. Tough way of amusing yourself with a computer! Shoot, it was several years before a color RGB monitor was available to add to a home computer. I had an Amber monochrome for quite a while before getting the RGB, thought it was the "cat's ass". We've come a long way!

Hey, know this is a little out of line but…the first hard drive that I saw as a HP in 1983 worked in a medicinal researched in Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center. Was part of a HP system, the drive was 3 feet tall, 3.5 feet long and about 8 in wide. The OS was hard wired, weight a ton!! 5mg!!


O’ no, think the SP is coming…Bye