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First time on the Internet...
jmone:
--- Quote from: wer on May 11, 2020, 10:41:00 pm ---You could access Usenet (remember newsgroups?) and then there were BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) some of which were UUCP enabled and some were not. FTP sites were the main way to access data, aside from Usenet
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The first rule of Usenet is: You do not talk about Usenet....
KingSparta:
My First Computer Was A Commodore Vic-20 It Had 3K Of memory.
I had about 10 Atari Computers Once
Upgraded to A PC, it was 25Mhz (Very Slow)
I use to run A BBS System Called The "Center City BBS" you can still find BBS lists with my BBS listed on it.
my first modem was A Hayes 300 Baud Modem (Very Slow)
My dad was a radio repair and then a Computer repairer back in the '50s and '60s their computers had tubes in it about 5 feet tall. to program it you had to use IBMcards using Binary code. He is now 88 and has Alzheimer's.
I have been using Media Center since Version 6 Of Media Jukebox (A Prior Name Of The Software)
I was more active years ago, and I have slowed down, But I still love music and normally have my headphones on most of the day, I am now retired. I am also a retired military Forward And Aero Observer for the field artillery. also a Disabled Veteran from two wars I served in.
larryrup:
One more piece of nostalgia.
When all this tech stuff was taking off, I worked building trading floors. When I started, every thing was hardware based. All circuit boards, frames and racks. We did video switching, on green screens. Miles and miles of coax. All the hardware was in a computer room, and just video and keyboard switching at the desk. Theft of service for the most part did not come into play. One port one screen. Then came digital. To add a server, you had to Tap the ethernet, then a thick yellow cable that snaked around all the racks. One false tap and the network was kaput! BTW, those first digital servers gave all services to all people at a trading desk. Forgot a system to control access. Oops. They built them pretty quickly.
Larry
antenna:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on May 11, 2020, 07:49:03 pm ---My first personal computer at work was an IBM with one 5¼ inch 360KB floppy disk drive....
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For me it was an IMSAI 8080, paper tape reader, 64KB of memory, circa 1976 or so.
I didn't have persistent storage I could boot from, so each time I booted the system I had to enter a 100-step boot program via the front panel switches, one 8-bit instruction at a time. That boot program would then read the "monitor" from paper tape and allow me to use the system.
wer:
The question was first time being on the internet, not first time using a computer. :)
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