Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh, those! A friend of mine had one, or a model similar to it, from Radio Shack. He was trying to write his thesis with it. Every time a voltage hick-up occurred, he would loose everything he wrote. We stayed away from him that summer. In retaliation, he managed to switch the english department from PC to Macs. Slobodan Dimitrov On Mar 19, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > At 07:01 PM 3/19/2007, you wrote: >> Oh, OK....The first computer that I built was at school - an >> analogue device for simulating second order differential equations >> (electrical circuits, suspensions - that sort of thing). >> >> Peter Dzwig > > My first computer was the TRS-80 by Radio Shack. I was teaching my > kids at home about 1980 and we bought this most advanced wonderful > computer to use. I think it had 64K of memory maybe, but all of my > children learned to program and make up their own games using it. > They are all now much better computer users than I am and one makes > his living as a computer programer. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA > http://www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information