Re: Nostalgia: Computing in the 20th century My first brush with a computer was 1986. I can't remember the spec (was in primary school then), just remember that the manufacturer was 'Telly'. Had no internal memory, used to run Logo on an external 5.25 floppy. Then GW-Basic sometime in 6th grade (1990). First modern day computer I saw was the HCL Beanstalk in '96. Used to run DOS and Windows (3.1) as an application.
Got introduced to Linux with Redhat 5.2. Used to be an all-nighter installation back then just to partition and load the OS X-Windows took another night. Nowadays its hardly a big deal.
Seeing punched cards for the first time in this thread. Wow! |