Text 35349, 76 rader
Skriven 2006-07-30 20:04:00 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 35058 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: Where where you when the Towers came down?
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29 Jul 06 14:14, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Roy Witt:

 CS>> I still think in storage is my first one.  CorData 8088, dual floppy
 CS>> (no HD) which ran my first BBS when I was in Hawaii.

 RW>> Hmmm. Sounds familiar. I had an IBM that had dual floppies and one
 RW>> of had to be used to runt he PC. They called it a portable, but it
 RW>> weighe too much to lug around for very long. Gave it to the goodwill
 RW>> too.

 CS> I didnt get a laptop til I moved to japan.

And you probably didn't need one until then. I bought one of the little
ones a while ago, a Toshiba P2 at 300MHz, which came with W98, but it had
W2k on it when I gave it to my son. He uses it both at home and at work.

 CS> The CorData is distinctive in that the monitor and CPU case are
 CS> molded together.

Kinda like a TRaSh 80 then. That's what the IBM was that I gave away when
we moved.

 CS> It;s in storage but i seem to recall the keyboard was separate.
 CS> Mouses came later so it didnt have one (nor had it use for one).

I bought a newer laptop in San Antonio a few months ago. Made right here
in Texas by Dell. It has everything one could ask for in a laptop. It's
wireless, so I'm not tied to a desk and I take it on trips to access the
internet for email and even connect with this one to get fidonet. The only
problem I have with it is the built-in mouse. There's no wheel, no ball or
anything to help scroll the screen, so I bought an external mouse for it.

 CS>> 'common'. That didnt start til around 1985 in an infancy way and
 CS>> didnt get truely common til around 1988 or so?

 RW>> I remember playing with a PC when they first came out, c1984-85, or
 RW>> ra when a friend of mine bought one about then. My first one came in
 RW>> 87 a it was much faster as a 80287 @ 12mhz...my son, who was still
 RW>> living i back then was into Apple, but soon bought a used 8088 when
 RW>> he saw what 80287 could do.

 CS> Well, I skipped the 286 era over except at work.  Never palyed much
 CS> with Apples but had to fix a few back when the Navy still used them
 CS> for the Photog rate folks.  Interesting GUI that I was then
 CS> unfamiliar with.

I never got used to the Apple stuff. I couldn't get used to the unix GUIs
either; once bitten by MS Windows, it's hard to adjust to something else
that doesn't look nor feel like it.

 CS>> Hehehe Ok!  I have some better ones now.  I finally decided it was
 CS>> time to shift to a digital camera.  Now to get the pics on the
 CS>> computer...

 RW>> I bought a nice one a couple of years ago and upgraded the memory
 RW>> card Olympus D390...it's old by today's standards, but it does the
 RW>> job. My Honeywell Asahi/Pentax 35mm SLR just gathers dust now.

 CS> Well, we are new to that stuff so i have to play with it a bit.
 CS> Might do that later today or might wait til next week.  I picked mine
 CS> out because it's easy to use and the fancy features arent so
 CS> bothersome you cant just 'point and click' which is the problem from
 CS> most of those units today.
 CS>                                        xxcarol

That was my contention when I bought my first one. Sometimes the picture
opportunity is lost by the time the digital cameras are ready to take the
picture. However, I have found that if you really want the picture, you
can snap it before the camera is ready and just hold the shutter button
and get it. The camera has already captured the image, it just needed to
setup the photo to look better according your pre-sets.


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