Re: For the fun of it

[Rob Greene <greener@charter.net>]

"Bill Heckel" <wheckelny1@verizon.net> wrote in 
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> Hey gang,
> 
> Let's have some fun....
> 
> Post your current age and the first computer you ever used. 

38.

The first computer I *used* was either visiting my mother at work playing 
Tic-Tac-Toe on the mainframe at her office in Minneapolis or the Apple II 
at school playing the original Oregon Trail.

The first computer *we owned* was an Apple II+ that my Dad bought - I 
remember the second disk was something like $500!

The first computer *I owned* was an Apple //e purchased from members of 
the Super Pirates of MPLS.  Or so the story goes!  My first hard-drive 
was a 5MB ProFile purchased from the guy who ran Dark Light BBS out of 
MPLS.  That computer took me through college!  I remember dialing up to 
do homework or play Conquest on the VAX during J-Term.

Unfortunately, I no longer have either of those computers.  Why do we do 
such dumb things?  I loved that computer!!  Plus all the disks and books 
and magazines... gone.  <Sigh.>

I am pleased that one of my son's first computers, however, is the Apple 
IIGS we picked up from school -- and he's used it since just before he 
turned 7.  Start 'em young I say!  :-)
-Rob