On 4/17/05, David Reynolds david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk wrote:
On 17 Apr 2005, at 20:16, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:40:24PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
While we are being all nostalgic, does anybody else remember the PPC640 laptop that ran off D cell batteries and had an (non backlit) mono LCD screen, I remember desperately wanting one of those when they came out.
First PC I ever owned; twin 720k 3.5" disc drives and an internal 2400 baud modem.
Mine was an Amstrad PC1640 with hercules graphics
IBM PC-XT with 5.25" floppy (low density of 360KB per disk) and a whopping 20MB hard disk. The screen was IBM CGA (not much better than a ZX Spectrum). In its later years I ran a hooky copy of Windows 3.0 without a mouse (excellent way to learn the keyboard short cuts!).
My first Linux was the SLS distribution before kernel v1, and I installed it in the spare HD space of an open access AMD 386-40MHz PC at university, dual boot and everything.
Salad days ...