Well to throw something into the discussion. My first "PC" was the Commodore C64 with the Tape Unit and extended RAM wich our mother bought for us to help my little brother learning English. She told us to write some program for him that should serve as a Card box with one card for each word he had to learn. This were the days when my programming love/hate relationship started.
The first PC i bought for myself was a 8086 IBM compatibel PC with 128 KB RAM, DOS2.11 a Hercules graphic card, 14" greenscreen monitor, two 5.25" floppy disks and an epson fx80 line printer. It had the tremendous value of 5000 DeutschMark, which was quite a lot for the student i was at that time.
Ths computer stayed in use until 2003 as it was for textprocessing by my parents. when we three brothers finally decided to buy them a brand new one. Had a hard time to convince my parents to stop using the old one and succeeded only when we got the old dos 2.11 text processing program running on the brand new PC (and build in a 5.25" Floppy)
Ahh those were the days.
And by the way. This old piece of hardware is still around somewhere.
Well to throw something into the discussion. My first "PC" was the Commodore C64 with the Tape Unit and extended RAM wich our mother bought for us to help my little brother learning English. She told us to write some program for him that should serve as a Card box with one card for each word he had to learn. This were the days when my programming love/hate relationship started.
The first PC i bought for myself was a 8086 IBM compatibel PC with 128 KB RAM, DOS2.11 a Hercules graphic card, 14" greenscreen monitor, two 5.25" floppy disks and an epson fx80 line printer. It had the tremendous value of 5000 DeutschMark, which was quite a lot for the student i was at that time.
Ths computer stayed in use until 2003 as it was for textprocessing by my parents. when we three brothers finally decided to buy them a brand new one. Had a hard time to convince my parents to stop using the old one and succeeded only when we got the old dos 2.11 text processing program running on the brand new PC (and build in a 5.25" Floppy)
Ahh those were the days.
And by the way. This old piece of hardware is still around somewhere.