[Opensim-users] Old computers - was Re: Shortcut Creation Drive-Letter Auto- Assignment?

[Karen Palen]

Heh heh - young upstart LOL

I started on a brand new IBM 1620 in 1964! It was an option for my "Calculators in Engineering" course.

Later I headed the project to put together one of the first "personal computers in 1972-1974. Well *I* think it WAS the very first - I just can't prove it!

http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/mod8/index.htm

The one I was able to bring home for my kids to play on had a wirewrap backplane though, not the nice neat motherboard shown in the web site and York U museum. :-)

It could play a mean game of Tic-Tac-Toe but not a lot else. We sure tried though :-)

I had designed several of the MIL chips for the system earlier, this was actually seen as a way to sell those ICs. No one would believe that there was a market for these "toy" computers!

Karen

--- On Thu, 2/25/10, John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Shortcut Creation Drive-Letter Auto- Assignment?
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 10:09 AM
> You know back when I first started to work
> with computers by building my first one in 1978, I never
> thought I would see the day of 3D.. I am glad I finally
> did.. :-)
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:56 AM,
> Karen Palen <karen_palen at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> No, just
> that MS has made improvements over the years LOL
> 
> 
> 
> With a system running a single well known App and talking
> only to about a dozen trusted web sites (banks, stock
> brokers etc.) there is little need for advanced security.
> 
> 
> 
> I DO use Firefox as the browser though :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Karen
> 
> 
> 
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