Comments on Puzzle #33927: You never forget your first
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)
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peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: line & color logic only
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#1: Jota (jota) on Apr 18, 2020
no, an apple for me ...#2: Lollipop (lollipop) on Apr 18, 2020
So true, Brian. I got my first in 1985. Dual disk drive, DOS, used the arrow keys to move the cursor because no mouse port yet. Cost me $5,000 CAD. I guess that makes me old.#3: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Apr 19, 2020
Lollipop: Mine was about that same vintage too! Maybe 1986. It was a Leading Edge Model D, running MS-DOS, with dual disk drives, no mouse, and a black-and-amber screen. Green was a more customary screen color at the time, but amber was thought to reduce eye strain. I discovered that my new computer could be programmed to make several octaves of different beeps and named her Helva after the Anne McCaffrey's character The [Space]Ship Who Sang.#4: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Apr 19, 2020
Helva had an upgraded hard drive that could hold 30 megabytes instead of 20. Now my phone can transfer 20 megabytes per second to my computer. I watch that going by and imagine that it is transferring a hard drive every second.
TI 99/4A, over here :)#5: Ga Hendrick (GaHendrick) on Apr 19, 2020 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#6: Deborah Eater (cricketswool) on Apr 19, 2020
Oh, the nostalgia!#7: K.D. (dimassis) on Apr 19, 2020
I wish I could make my children understand how mind blowing it was. I will never forget the experience of turning it on for the first time.#8: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Apr 19, 2020
Progress. Ain't it wonderful? I remember a scene from when I worked near down town Phoenix quite a few years ago. On my way home I would drive through an area populated by court houses and legal offices. As I was waiting for a light to change I noticed a young man neatly attired in a dark suit carrying a brief case, one with hard squared off corners. He suddenly stopped and stood on one foot like a flamingo. He placed his brief case on his raised knee, opened it and took out his phone which was about the size of a brick and begin talking. As ludicrous as the scene was I remember feeling envious because he had a phone and I didn't.#9: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Feb 7, 2021
My first computer was an IBM 360/65, using punch cards and a line printer. It belonged to the university and cost some millions of dollars. My cell phone is more powerful in CPU power, dynamic memory, and permanent memory, as well as being able to communicate with both people and computers. Oh, and it is a bit smaller (my shirt pocket can hold nowhere near a dozen refrigerators) and doesn't need high power electrical connections or serious air conditioning.
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