Happy Birthday IBM-PC
August 12, 1981 at a news conference in NY, IBM introduced the PC. 40 years ago. Holy cow. I think I was still using my VIC-20 then. Rich http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS
I was too young and broke in 1981 On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 7:45 AM Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
August 12, 1981 at a news conference in NY, IBM introduced the PC. 40 years ago. Holy cow. I think I was still using my VIC-20 then.
Rich
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Back then I remember as a kid the Timex TS1000 was $99. *That* was too expensive for me then. On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:47 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was too young and broke in 1981
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 7:45 AM Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
August 12, 1981 at a news conference in NY, IBM introduced the PC. 40
years ago. Holy cow. I think I was still using my VIC-20 then.
Rich
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Colleagues and I were discussing the Sinclaire pocket computer with 1kB (>GASP<) of memory, back then. But we were spoiled by access to mainframe computers with (double >GASP<) 14 GB of memory! (IIRC. Maybe it was 14 MB?) Bruce NJ On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:57 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Back then I remember as a kid the Timex TS1000 was $99. *That* was too expensive for me then.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:47 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was too young and broke in 1981
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 7:45 AM Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
August 12, 1981 at a news conference in NY, IBM introduced the PC. 40
years ago. Holy cow. I think I was still using my VIC-20 then.
Rich
http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group
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On 8/12/21 20:08, Bruce via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Colleagues and I were discussing the Sinclaire pocket computer with 1kB (>GASP<) of memory, back then. But we were spoiled by access to mainframe computers with (double >GASP<) 14 GB of memory! (IIRC. Maybe it was 14 MB?)
I don't think anyone had GB of anything back in the 80's. I remember back then when our IBM mainframe was upgraded to 1mb of core memory and that was serving 3 hospitals with 100's of terminals. My phone has 4 GB of RAM and 256GB of flash storage. I don't remember how much DASD storage the mainframe had but the disk drives were huge. Mark
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:57 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Back then I remember as a kid the Timex TS1000 was $99. *That* was too expensive for me then.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:47 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was too young and broke in 1981
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 7:45 AM Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
August 12, 1981 at a news conference in NY, IBM introduced the PC. 40 years ago. Holy cow. I think I was still using my VIC-20 then. Rich
http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group
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On 8/12/21 7:44 AM, Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
August 12, 1981 at a news conference in NY, IBM introduced the PC. 40 years ago. Holy cow. I think I was still using my VIC-20 then.
Rich
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Since I have one, I should wish it a Happy Birth Day. Those were good times. I mean how could ever fill up a 5M Mountain HD? ;-) They did make a great reef. I can't recall how fast we migrated to DOS 2.0 or the 10M full height hard disks. But we were busy for a few weeks at Middlesex County College. I still have nightmares about writing code in edlin. At least we figured out how to copy con: to a file. I think we could also copy from the serial port but that's long gone from my memory. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
I have an original PC with the expansion chassis downstairs in the shop. I got it from my wife’s uncle who was a regional sales manager for IBM. I guess I should visit it. http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS ________________________________ From: Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2021 4:23:23 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Richard Cini <rich.cini@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Happy Birthday IBM-PC On 8/12/21 7:44 AM, Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
August 12, 1981 at a news conference in NY, IBM introduced the PC. 40 years ago. Holy cow. I think I was still using my VIC-20 then.
Rich
http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group
Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS
Since I have one, I should wish it a Happy Birth Day. Those were good times. I mean how could ever fill up a 5M Mountain HD? ;-) They did make a great reef. I can't recall how fast we migrated to DOS 2.0 or the 10M full height hard disks. But we were busy for a few weeks at Middlesex County College. I still have nightmares about writing code in edlin. At least we figured out how to copy con: to a file. I think we could also copy from the serial port but that's long gone from my memory. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
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