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You know, I was just sitting here posting and started thinking. Duh!
The first computer I worked on was in a machine shop in Austin. We got these new cnc machines, As part of the package a computer with machining software came with them. It was an NEC computer. It didn't have a hard drive or visible operating system. It had two 8 inch floppy drives. One was used for the machine software and the other was for storage. Man we were in hog heaven! up till then, we used paper tapes with a teletype machine to print them and loaded them into the machines.
I moved to another shop that had an Apple Plus or Classic with a tiny screen, it was blazingly fast about 8 mhz! (I am not sure of that, it may have been 16 mhz).
With that I had to have an Apple. I got a performa 400 16 mhz speed. cool machine. I got on to the web, Apple's EWorld, Man we were so modern, then surfed all these bulletin boards that I could find.Then the better machine bug got me later. I got a Power Mac 6100 66 mhz, oh it was so fast and cool.
But then I got a Power mac 5200 all in one unit with 32 megs of ram and 75 mhz.
I moved to windows due to work. I got a dell off the dell auction site for $500. 133mhz and 64 megs. Haven't gone back to Macs. I got used to windows with all its quirks.
Now I have a dell 866 mhz (new 2000) with a lot of ram, big monitor and computing has really changed. I do these machine programs with 3d surfacing that wasn't possible just a few short years ago. Create spreadsheets for materials costing and quoting. Email drawings. Play unreal online.
WOW
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