ECKLEBURG
2004-09-10 - 12:20 p.m.
I remember our first computer, which you hooked up to a TV the same way you hooked up your Atari (we had a Coleco Vision), and you could tune the TV to MTV so it would play music (yes, actual music still . . .) while you were on the computer.
Then our second computer was an IBM PC jr – The JR referred to the fact that it didn’t have an internal hard drive, so you had to use a DOS 5.5” floppy to boot the OS, and then use other 5.5” floppies to load games or your word processes or (AmiPro, then WinWord).
After that we had a 386 IBM clone (when it was still an issue if you were going to use a clone or not, and you had between the IBM OS and the MS OS when you were buying a computer). We chose Windows 3.1.
Have you ever tried to do a backup of computer on 3.5” disks? It really, really sucks.
After that, I started getting geeky and built my own computers with top of the line 20 GB hard drives.
Now it is all about Laptops (which I can’t build) and wireless networks, where I can connect to mine and my next-door neighbors).
And I have a palm, which fits in my pocket and is more powerful than my first three computers, probably combined.
