[Forgiven_Sinner]

Heh heh. All these memories of old computers. In 1969 I used our school's AT&T teletype to run game programs from the school's on line account on an IBM 360. I poked around the program (written in BASIC) and changed some of the code to see what would happen. That summer my friend and I used the teletype in his basement (his Dad worked for AT&T) and accessed the same account. So I guess I was one of the first hackers.

I used a Univac in college, and by the end of college (1978), the dorms had PDP8s. I also had a TI-51 programmable calculator. You could enter up to 100 statements! It might have had 1K of memory.

At work, in 1978, I had access to 4 IBM 370's--3 with 4 MB of RAM and one with 2 MB of RAM. The TRS80 came out in 1980 and I decided if a PC ever 1 MB of RAM, I would buy it. In 1987 I bought an HP 286 machine. It was the most expensive PC I've ever bought. It cost $2600 and that is with a 40% employee discount.

My first email was in 1984 or 1985. We wrote the program. The PC's routed the mail through the mainframe.

I think the first email was in the 70's, but late 70's not early. But of course, the DNC doesn't know and doesn't care.

[Koblenz]

Geez, and I thought I was an early email user... I got email first in about 1986 on local BBSes. With FidoNet, you could send emails to others, but not many people were online. In 1988, at college at WPI, I got internet email.