How did you get started?

From: Paul E Coad <pcoad_at_crl.com>
Date: Fri Apr 11 03:24:34 1997

On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Carl R. Friend wrote something like:

> While I'm greatly pleased that folks are preserving microcomputers,
> I've never felt a "bond" to that particular realm of design. I like
> things like time-states, core memory, and pulse-logic. I guess that
> makes me an "old fart".
>

I have a lot of respect for people who preserve minis and mainframes.
Workstations (Sun's in particular) and 70s and 80's micros are what grab
me since they are what I have used most. I would prefer to collect
workstations[1], Unix boxen, and machines which I have used in the past.
But, fate seems to want me to collect portable (or in most cases
schlepable) CP/M machines.

Is this a generational thing? My first computer exposure what to a
mainframe in the late 70's, but my first computer was an 80's micro.
Are people in the 40+ age group more likely to have fond memories
of minis?

I may not be an "old fart", but seening today's kids, sometimes I feel
like one. (Nintendo?, why in my day we had to type in our games on
membrane keyboards. It took hours to type them in. We stored programs
on cassette tape, and we liked it...)

[1] There are a good number of Sun 3's around. Unfortunately they seem to
always be just the cpu. If anyone in the silicon valley area (or anywhere
near there) would like to trade an old Sun for an Atari 1040ST with about
40lbs of accessories, let me know.

--pec
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Old fart in training.
Received on Fri Apr 11 1997 - 03:24:34 BST