14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
11:21 p.m.
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 15:58, Billy Pettit wrote:
Richard wrote:
Dude. 10 years ago I don't know if this "hobby" was on anyone's
radar. Did ebay even exist 10 years ago? At any rate, 10 years seems
like such a long time for this hobby that I don't know how you could
compare 10 years ago to now.
Billy writes:
--snip--
Okay, so we're old farts and now that the
dinosaurs went extent, we don't
count as part of the hobby any more. But dammit, 10 years is nothing. I
know a few other survivors who have been playing with home computers for 50
years!
Count me in as an old fart as well...
I had the following home/hobby computers:
IBM 609 (CPU only - hacked keyboard and display) in 1963
CDC-160 in 1967
PDP-8/L in 1971
PDP-8/I in 1972
PDP-12 in 1975
Built Digital Group and lots of S-100 bus systems in the late 70's to the mid
80's.
Went to just about every early Tranton Computerfest and a few West Coast
Computer Faire's (in San Francisco).
So some of us have have been computer hobbiest's for more years than we'd like
to remember ;-)
Cheers,
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"