First personal computer nostalgia

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Wed Nov 15 00:44:43 2000

1977: My first 'PC' was a KIM-1, which now resides in the Santa Barbara
Fortress of Schloss Marvin.
  
1979: I then assembled a Z80/48K/Pertec Floppy/four serial port Cromemco
Z2H over a period of about one year, but I don't think that it fits the
subject due to it's 'mongrel' nature.

1983: My first "pc" PC was a borrowed Kaypro II, then a 10, that I bought
used on a sales promotion scheme for $1400.00 in 1984... my disposible
income at that time for about 8 months. The store I worked at (as the
Fixit Geek) 'carried the paper'for me, so I suffered only 8 months of
chronic malnutrition. Better than starving outright.

1985: I bought a used Columbia Data Products portable XT, and to this day
I remember it quite fondly, operation was good (for it's day) and
aesthetically it was most pleasing. The keyboard was firm and quick and
the display was super-sharp, and the packaging was more like test gear
than a computer.

  Then came a succession of ever-increasing PC Stuff, none of which is
germaine to the Topic.

  Then of course the PDP Preservation Virus invaded, and my house became a
Refuge for Old Iron.


  Cheerz

John

  
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