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Turn to page 10 and read the guest column, “Oak Ridge Schools deserve stronger funding,” by Jacob Kilpatrick. Then read it again.
If Mr. Kilpatrick should read this, thank you. People like you make me really happy to call Oak Ridge home.
He’s probably some kind of computer geek loser.
My favorite kind! After all, I got my first computer when you were in diapers. It was a family vote thing between a computer and a new boat (both costing about the same in 1978 or so): an Apple II+ with 64k RAM and two — TWO — external floppy drives.
Yes, I said 64k. And it was more computer than most people at the plants had on their desks at the time, if they even had one. The monitor was a 13″ TV.
My geeky friends across the street were really excited to get an ATARI in 1980, but it used a cassette tape drive instead of floppies… so slow. And this, from the kid who a couple of years later used a 300-baud modem, where you could watch the letters form across the screen in rows, like a slow typist.
Just yesterday, my kids pulled out a funky old keyboard and asked how old it was. The answer? About 21. Years. It went to an old -8088 machine that Hubby had built himself; the monitor was made from a CRT out of an old 13″ tv, with the back wrapped in chicken wire and stuck in a liquor box.
Geez… you’d think with all these years of experience, I would have done something more productive.
Hee.
My first computer.
Well, technically my dads, but that didn’t stop me from doing the 10 20 basic stuff on it. Yep. I was an early dork.
I talked about my first netted computer here:
http://www.atomictumor.com/cache/dec05/12-11-2005.htm, but spam karma probably won’t let me link to it.