Added Second Hard Drive

[Chris C]

Heck, Denny, in 1982 I couldn't even spell computer!

[Denny Unfried]

Heck, Denny, in 1982 I couldn't even spell computer!

I still have a hard time spellin puter but after 68 years I already done learned how to spell wheelbarrow and teardrop.

[campadk]

Ours lives have been taken over by computers. We have 7 in the house currently, sucking up all our electricity and storing thousands of photos and more old useless data than I care to remember. I have a few USB drives attatched to this computer and one has gone flacky, the other makes a lot of noise.... why do they make cooling fans so cheap? Next drive will be an all in one USB drive. They seem a better choice than buying the el cheapo external cases and installing a hard drive, and much more compact.

[Geron]

Anyone remember CPM? That was my first OS. Text only - no graphics. I believe it had 16K memory. Took ages to recalc a spreadsheet (what was that program callec? Logicalc???). It did have dual floppies ss/sd. And yes, I learned to old "hole punch" trick. First hard drive I saw was 11 mg.

Then came the Commodore 64 and finally an XT. Last I heard that old XT was still writing sermons (gave it to a pastor friend). Amazing.

Served one church and I built 16+ for them (We had a computer lab in the SS dept). Then with 4 boys I built lots of computers. Finally lost count. Lost interest when Dell started selling them for 299.

Ya'll done tweeked my interest again. May have to build another one just for the fun and to bone up on the new tech. I'm sure one of the kids would grab it up.

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[Arne]

Talking about history, back in 1978 I installed the first computer at the Florsheim Shoe Company in Chicago. It was an IBM 386-25, or something like that. The cpu was the size of a refrigerator, the disk drives were like old 78 rpm records stacked about 8 inches high....

But, the killer was, the largest program it could run was 32K... probably about the size of the mouse software in a current desktop...

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Went into Best Buy yesterday..... One whole wall and adjacent floor area was dedicated to computers..... yes, indeed, how things have changed.....

[Sonetpro]

I remember building my first fast computer after the 286 & 386. A Intel Pentium. It was blazing at 66MHZ with a whopping 16mb ram. If I remember it was like $150 for a 8mb ram upgrade.

[Denny Unfried]

Anyone remember CPM? That was my first OS. Text only - no graphics. I believe it had 16K memory. Took ages to recalc a spreadsheet (what was that program callec? Logicalc???). It did have dual floppies ss/sd. And yes, I learned to old "hole punch" trick. First hard drive I saw was 11 mg.

Yup, I still have CPM on a couple of old computers and an old 20MEG Winchester hard drive that's as large as one of todays computers. Also have the original Visicalc spreadsheet program with a 3" think manual on how to use the thing. My old Model I had/has 4/K of memory and still works.

Denny

[TomS]

Heck, Denny, in 1982 I couldn't even spell computer!

In 1982, I owned a Commodore VIC-20. I taught myself BASIC on that machine. After a few months I bought a cassette tape drive to save my programes. I thought that was was sooo cool!

When I got out of the Army In 1983, I got a shipping and receiving job at the Customer Service Logistics Department of Prime Computer. Anyone remember Prime?

In those days, 1 Mb memory boards were the size of a pizza box. CPU's consisted of 4 or 5 pizza box size boards. And then there were the CDC disk drives. 300 Mb drives were the size of a full-sized office desk . Those things were always having head crashes. It seems we were constantly shipping platters and read/write heads for those things.