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Offline Gabby

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Re: 1st Computer
« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2011, 02:10:07 am »
Hate to have your electric bill!  :o
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« Reply #16 on: August 26, 2011, 11:11:16 am »
Steve...
I looked at that photo and my background in 'facilities maintenance' took over and I immediately thought...
"That room sure must get warm"
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"I sure hope he has several circuits running from the 'box' to service that load'!

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« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2011, 02:52:28 pm »
My dad had a computer like yours in the 80's. One of my favorite photos of me as a kid is of me and him using it when I was 2 or 3. I think about the power difference when I hand my smart phone to my 4 year-old.

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« Reply #18 on: August 26, 2011, 02:58:11 pm »
The cable TV box in the room is the biggest heat generator. Those things are a sin how much current they draw. The older ones with the first DVR's built in draw about as much current as a refrigerator. If you turn them off they lose their menu database and take about 20 minutes to populate the menu when you turn them back on.

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« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2011, 04:21:44 pm »
My first computer was a Commodore 64 when they didn't have floppy drives or hard drives even available yet.  type in the program, then when you turned it off you lost the program.  Most of the programs that came with it also had syntax errors.
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« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2011, 03:08:22 pm »
Wow, Stan. That's a beautiful set up there.  I can't imagine having anything like it, but then I wouldn't know what to do with all that anyway.

My first computer was the Compaq "lugable"  It looked very much like the Kaypro, which I also wanted.  The Compaq had two floppy drives, no hard drive and weighed 46 pounds.  I remember how I much I considered whether I needed 48 or 64 kb of ram!  Finally bought it with 64 and paid close to $3,500.  I later bought a couple of 20 mb hard drives that fit into slots for $600 each.  I really liked it and used it alot for my business at the time tracking inventory, doing budgeting, writing proposals, etc.  BTW, my first word processing program was "WordStar", which came on a 5 1/4" disc and had room to save my work onto that same disc.  Oh, and I got on line with a 1,200 baud modem. 
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