Subject: Re: [LAU] [OT] first computer ?

From: Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller@...> · Date: Friday, October 31, 2008 - 11:03 pm

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Paul Davis  wrote:

quoted text> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 21:42 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:

>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:47:05AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:

>>

>>

>> > What was your first computer ?

>>

>> BBC B. 32k ram, later expanded with 100k floppy disk.

>> My loved one at the time wrote her >300 page degree

>> thesis on this, printed on a loaned daisywheel printer

>> using a driver written in BASIC. We used to set up

>> things to print a few tens of pages and go to see a

>> movie, hoping the rattling would have finished

>> without a paper jam when we came back.

>

> that was the 2nd computer i used, after one whose name i don't quite

> recall. but i do remember going to print my final year thesis in college

> and starting it, waiting, doing the calculation and realizing it would

> take about 1.5 days to complete.

>

> as they say ... good times, good times.
you did your thesis on a computer? fancy. ;-)

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