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00001111101 and a Passover FFAF...

April 29, 2005

First two things… wow the design of the admin tool you have set for wordpress is awesome owen, I want a copy! Second, today is the sixth day of the Jewish holiday of Passover and I’m posting this link everywhere just to let the world know.
hmmm, first computer… well my parents bought a used commodore in the late 80s from an elementary school in town… It had a huge green screen monitor attached to a large keyboard (I was under 10 so everything was huge at the time) and attached to the back via cable was a tape deck… yes a cassette deck… no floppy nothing here… we had a box of old cassettes with about fifty programs or so on them… no all of them worked so my first experience consisted of GW BASIC, a crappy ascii drawing program and hangman, but hey I thought It was pretty cool… at the time my house had this my father was way ahead and on his second laptop for work a tandy 800, that is now mine) with a 2600 baud acoustic coupler modem (two cups you attach to a phone and the laptop)… this was an upgrade from his older laptop as his first tandy 400(i also now own it) had an eight line screen above the keyboard and the newer one had a flip up screen… anyway… we soon upgraded the commodore to a word processor then to the piece of junk known as packard bell and then dell and now I have a beautiful iBook…anyway… just a little story about my first computer fun…

thanks for the free for all,
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Apple II

April 29, 2005

My very first playtime I had with computers was probably the Apple II. I think it was called that. Maybe something else even, but hey, I was too young to know, let along bother! 😉

It had that smallish monochrome monitor, which had green text. Yes, green and black. Nothing else. The keyboard was integrated with the CPU. It only had the standard letters and the top row of numbers. No keypad at all. The floppy drive was the big versions, 5 1/4" type. Man, it didn’t even have the 1.2MB capacity it’s descendants enjoyed before they were phased out. I think it’s only 360kB or something. Memory wasn’t very big too. It could have hit 2 MB, though I could be wrong. Oh, it had to be booted up from the floppy.

Computers... how did I live without them?

April 29, 2005

Another FFAF is upon us? Where did April go?

Just the other day, I was thinking about how I’ve been an Internet surfer for only nine years. I never had a home computer till I was in college, and as a commuting student, I’d spend the hours between classes in the computer labs chatting on the now-defunct theglobe.com and making really bad personal webpages on Geocities.