[OFB Cafe] Introductions?

[Timothy Butler]

> Hands up both of you who _didn't_ have a ZX81 (it doesn't count if you
> actually had something even more primitive and skipped that step).

	I actually was computer-less for a long time, although I encountered  
an Apple II a tiny bit and received a TI 99/4A as a gift (a while  
after they were discontinued). That was a good system -- I was still  
able to buy stuff for the TI, as I recall, until '95.

>> The break through: a Western Digital "Hard Card" drive of 20 mb. This
>> had to be formatted as two partitions as M$-DOS wouldn't read over  
>> 10 mb...
>
> I remember that step.  I had an original IBM PC-XT - for which I  
> remember
> spending $2300 _used_!  I've never paid so much for a computer (even  
> laptops)
> since.  When the harddrive eventuall failed, it was replaced with a  
> 20MB
> monster, and I remember having to use it as two logical disks, but I  
> had a
> program called something like BigDrive which remapped it as a single  
> C:
> drive.

	Aww, shucks. You guys are a bunch of geezers. I didn't mess with IBM  
compatibles until they has 120 MB disks (1993). That was such a nice  
luxury after fooling with cassette based storage...

	-Tim

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