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To: Dinsdale
Ok... I admit it... Mt first love was an 8086 (modified Altos box) with a cassette recorder for storage.

Mt first "business" computer to play with was a nixdorf with a pico-n processor and unibasic.

10 posted on 06/05/2006 6:18:42 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: xcamel
Ok... I admit it... Mt first love was an 8086 (modified Altos box) with a cassette recorder for storage.

Somewhere in my basement is my first computer, an Altos 586, probably the child or grandchild of your computer. 10MHz 8086, 1MB RAM, 5 RS-232 ports. I did have both a floppy drive AND a 20MB hard drive, for Altos Xenix and the Xenix Development System. I bought the computer used in early 1986 for $1000 (with a 5MB hard drive), and spent another $1000 on the used 20MB hard drive! And that included 2 Altos II terminals!

Mark

12 posted on 06/05/2006 6:24:15 PM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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