put it on floppys and carry it there = sneaker net
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Canât remember my first but it was an IBMâŚanyway I used to make websitesâŚHTML wayâŚway before DreamweaverâŚ
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Ah⌠the good old days of playing Quake 1 without a mouseâŚ
Waiting 10 minutes for a photo of a nekkid lady to loadâŚ
Weâre so spoiled now.
Going from an analog typewriter to a pc where you can delete mistakes, copy, cut & paste was a big deal. Huge upgrade.
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386 SX âŚpaid to have the mb, cpu and ram upped to a DX3 with a whopping 4 MB of ram. Canât remember the hdd but was MLM iirc.
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True Story! I learned on a Manual 
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Mavis Beacon teaches typing, lol. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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I got my start on my uncles TRS80.
Then I got a TI-99 for my birthday, and started trying to write adventure games in basic.
A few years later bought an Atari 600XL with money from my first job. Never did much with that one though.
Many years later, bought a 486 with a 14.4K modem so I could get onto early dial up internet.
I started using Linux very early at my job (Slackware on a CD, in like 1994), so I brought disk home and installed it onto my PC (and fought with that for a long time) but stick with it, cause it allowed me to write and test shell scripts at home for my job. That I would then bring the scripts to work on a floppy disk.
Our department was amazed at shitty scripts I wrote using ksh, awk, and sed.
I still use a Linux laptop at home mostly. I do have a Mac laptop, but my kid uses it for school now.
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This is so cool, I thought my thread was dead. Keep those stories coming OG 
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Started playing with programming on an Apple ][+ as soon as the school bought one for the library. Would stay after school toying around with it.
Not too long after, parents bought me an Apple ][e.
Thanks Ma, thanks Dad. Luv ya.
First game? Oregon Trail. 
Sometime later Zork.
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Nice, 1971. They remade that in 2009.
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Wow.
Way back I become fast friends with some folk that ran one of the largest âundergroundâ BBS sites in the Midwest. Dial-in. He had a couple of these huge 10MB hard drives. Cost something $700 each.
10MB! Huge! Still talk with him today. Guy was ahead of his time, he was even was running packet radio that could be accessed via repeaters (pre-cursor to what we call wireless today).
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Some Nostalgia:
Canât forget about Ultima:
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It doesnât look right in colorâŚ
Maybe amber of green 
Cheers
G
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Woow!! 8 platters!
The BIG Bucks! 
Q. 5.25 or 8"??
Cheers
G
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Ok, yâall gonna LOVE this! lol I had to toss this bit of info into the mixâŚ
The first computer I used and learned on was a Monrobot XI. The input and output was a reel to reel punch tape and typewriter. I learned Fortran, Cobal, and symbol âCâ. There wasnât an âInternetâ and not even the Usenet was around. mid '60s
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I bought a Tandy something in 84 for school because I couldnât afford an IBM. All I did was âword processingâ basically typing without correction tape.
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Mavis taught me some typing skills also!! That was the first floppy I installed other than what came with the Tiny system back then. Man I still suck at typing.
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How did âthe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogâ become the typical sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet and not âsphinx of black quartz, judge my vowâ which is objectively a million times cooler?
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LOL, donât know but you may have the new winner
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