Comments on: Your First Computer http://austinmatzko.com/2006/02/13/your-first-computer/ A blog about philosophy, Christianity, web development and whatever else I feel like writing about. Thu, 16 May 2013 02:22:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2-RC4-18391 By: when you install the "belkin wireless router, do you run the installation disk on bot h computers, or just on? http://austinmatzko.com/2006/02/13/your-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-213674 when you install the "belkin wireless router, do you run the installation disk on bot h computers, or just on? Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:47:20 +0000 http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2006/02/14/your-first-computer/#comment-213674 [...] on both computers or just on the second computer? Or do you just run the disk on the first computer Do you run the installation disk on both computers or just on the second computer? Or do you just ru...r WordPress › [...] [...] on both computers or just on the second computer? Or do you just run the disk on the first computer Do you run the installation disk on both computers or just on the second computer? Or do you just ru…r WordPress › [...]

]]> By: Ted Miller http://austinmatzko.com/2006/02/13/your-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-496 Ted Miller Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:08:12 +0000 http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2006/02/14/your-first-computer/#comment-496 I think our first computer was a TRS-80 (complete with tape deck peripheral). I don't remember getting much use out of it. Life changed forever when my dad brought home a MacPlus with 1MB of RAM and a 10GB zero footprint hard drive. I think the whole setup put him back about $4k. Hope you and Melita are doing well--not sure exactly how I ended up on your blog, but it's great to hear how you-all are doing. I think our first computer was a TRS-80 (complete with tape deck peripheral). I don’t remember getting much use out of it. Life changed forever when my dad brought home a MacPlus with 1MB of RAM and a 10GB zero footprint hard drive. I think the whole setup put him back about $4k.

Hope you and Melita are doing well–not sure exactly how I ended up on your blog, but it’s great to hear how you-all are doing.

]]> By: Dad http://austinmatzko.com/2006/02/13/your-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Dad Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:25:28 +0000 http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2006/02/14/your-first-computer/#comment-446 You've got me wondering whether that TI-99/4A is still up in our attic somewhere. In the early '80s, my dissertation was keyboarded on a Murrow, which had an operating sysem incompatible with everything else in the world. But that was far too complicated a job for me to do myself. Out of the kindness of their hearts, my sister-in-law Darlene typed the manuscript and my brother George did the formatting. I remember when BJU got its first Macs in 1984, something user-friendly enough for me to handle. I even remember the first question I asked in the computer lab, "How do you get that blinking line to come over here?" You’ve got me wondering whether that TI-99/4A is still up in our attic somewhere.

In the early ’80s, my dissertation was keyboarded on a Murrow, which had an operating sysem incompatible with everything else in the world. But that was far too complicated a job for me to do myself. Out of the kindness of their hearts, my sister-in-law Darlene typed the manuscript and my brother George did the formatting.

I remember when BJU got its first Macs in 1984, something user-friendly enough for me to handle. I even remember the first question I asked in the computer lab, “How do you get that blinking line to come over here?”

]]> By: Greg Linscott http://austinmatzko.com/2006/02/13/your-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Greg Linscott Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:18:07 +0000 http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2006/02/14/your-first-computer/#comment-442 The closest thing I had to a first computer was a Radio Shack Tandy <a href="http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=91" rel="nofollow">Color Computer</a> that my grandfather owned and I used often when I went to his house. I remember the sound of the cassette tapes we used to save our "programs..." I longed for a computer of my own, but in the early 1980s, my family didn't even own a TV set to hook it up to. I think I've made up for it today, though... :-) The closest thing I had to a first computer was a Radio Shack Tandy Color Computer that my grandfather owned and I used often when I went to his house. I remember the sound of the cassette tapes we used to save our “programs…”

I longed for a computer of my own, but in the early 1980s, my family didn’t even own a TV set to hook it up to.

I think I’ve made up for it today, though… :-)

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