I was using a third hand commodore colt(IBM PC copy) with an 8088 CPU and a 4th hand IBM monochrome amber monitor in the early 90s. It had a hard drive, floppy drive and modem, but couldn’t run windows. I used it for wordperfect and quattro pro.
First machine I had was a Seequa Chameleon. It had a 5 mhz 8088, two floppies, but no hard drive. Back about 83. Cost was over $2000.
Actually, I had one of the Timex? Sinclair machines that you plugged into the TV and could write basic programs on. But with those, the only way you could save a program was to use an interface to a tape drive, like a cassette recorder, and it would save the program in tone bursts!
Old stuff...
Like me!
But I’ve been working with computers, Univac and IBM mainframes since 1975, so I practically always had access to one if I felt like doing some play-around programming.
lol.
I hear there are clubs keeping the Commodore 64 alive, writing software to get them online and all that. Talk about a strange hobby. :p
Quattropro, that brings back memories. Anyone use Geoworks, the GUI that windows copied?
I thought I was the only one :O
I always preferred Word Perfect over Word (and Wordstar too) and Quatro over Lotus :)