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Originally Posted by TechniSol
Oh my goodness, we've stumbled into the "Old Fart's Computer Club and Home for Indigent Hackers"... Hmmm, let's see, I recall the Altair, but was a bit too young to get my hands on one, bought my first PC as a teenager, a Timex-Sinclair TS1000 with 2K of memory upgraded to a whopping 16KB as soon as I could, quickly moved to an Apple ][+ before college, then three years later went to work for a company building S-100 bus based industrial controls. Ah, me. Those were the days, nothing like hoping you hadn't driven several hundred miles and needed eproms you didn't have to fix something... the good old days.
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Old fart, maybe. Indigent? Hardly. Hacker? Deny everything, admit nothing, demand proof!
Looking back, what I remember most is the fun we had with computers then. Microcomputers were the domain of the hobbyist and there were so many different systems, users groups and magazines. There were all the hobbyist run BBS systems and long distance phone bills that were unbelievable. Now, it's serious business and not that much fun anymore.
I was digging in the basement a few months back and ran into my collection of Byte and Kilobaud magazines. The first Robert Tinney cover for Byte brought back a lot of memories.
Regards,
David