Re: For the fun of it

[Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Bill Garber wrote:

> : Tony C wrote:
> : My first purchased computer was my IIc ROM 03 in 1985, which I still
> : use but it's been since beefed up a bit with a Video 7 digital RGB
> : adapter running 16 colors to an NEC 3D vga monitor (with low sync
> : ability), an 8 mHz ZipChip, a Ram IIc 1 mb ramboard, 2 - 3.5" UniDisk
> : drives, an external 5.25" Disk IIc, an external clock IIc, a joystick
> : and a mouse using a softswitch adapter, a 56k modem, a color IWII with
> : single sheet feeder and a Sequential Systems CT100c external 100 mb
> : SmartPort hard drive (with 4 - 25 mb partitions).
> 
> Great system, Tony.

Thanks.  

I had originally bought the IIc but returned it when a friend said to get
a Commodore 128 instead so I could trade games with him but the C128 had
too many wires everywhere with too many separate parts in just the basic
system (taking up a whole dining room table) and didn't do, nearly, what
the IIc could do (in such a tiny well-packed space) so I returned the C128
and repurchased my IIc from the dealer again who, luckily, still had it
packed up from my return, all over the course of a couple of days.  I've
never regretted buying the IIc and still enjoy it every day.

> : My first home computer was an Atari 400 at a small computer kiosk in a
> : mall in 1978.

Incidentally, this line should have read my first home computer 'exposure'
was an Atari 400 which they were selling for $400. (for just the computer 
and nothing else) at a kiosk.  I didn't buy it (good thing) as I didn't
have the money for it but it piqued my interest in the small home
computer.