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Western CO | First computer used was the mainframe at Colorado State using punch cards as input -- for the life of me I can't remember what those machines were.
Next was some HP desktops that were made specifically for the test equipment in the EE labs -- 8 inch floppys for removable media, and pen plotters for graphical output.
First computer at a job was a Commodore 64 at Rockwell in Southern CA -- running circuit simulations in SPICE using a cassette tape drive for programs and data. Thought we had really moved up when the first IBM PC showed up -- 5.25 single sided floppies (anyone remember using a "double sided" disk with the single sided drives by cutting out the write protect slot with a special little punch).
First computer that I owned was an IBM AT clone -- 6 Mhz 286, 10 Mb hard drive (full height 5.25) and a Viewsonic VGA monitor -- At that point I had a better computer at home than I had a work.
From there my PC's at home were pretty much a little of this and a little of that. I remember talking with some friends once and they asked my wife what kind of PC we had -- She just said "it's a Heinz 57" :-)
Spent quite a bit of time working on UNIX workstations for several years when PC's really lagged the power curve as far as graphics and computing power capability -- I remember using a Sun workstation in about 1988 that the company I worked for upgraded from 4Mb of ram to 8Mb -- right at $5,000 to do that -- just north of $1200 /Mb.
Still have a Pentium IV running Windows XP --
About three years ago moved to Mac's -- typing this on my aluminum cased macbook, also have a 21" iMac on my desk. | |
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Been looking at "first combine" and "first grain bin" posts on Cafe, what about computers?
