I started out with a Tandy TRS80 CoCo the old silver case one, my mum bought it for me for xmas, and paid the radioshack guy a little extra to solder in more memory and took it from 4K to 14K :) I loved that machine.. It is the machine that introduced me to Zork :)<br>
<br>Eventually I got a C64 and I learned to program on that, first basic, and then assembly. I wrote a couple programs that had been published in RUN magazine, and worked on several projects that eventually got released into shareware.. <br>
<br>I was known locally for my not so legal activities ;) but I was not an uber hacker, I did hang out with a few (RT3!) and we did lots of run and interesting things.. That all ended when I got paranoid because my buddy at the time got busted for hacking a bank.. yikes!! Find out your friend is being held by the FBI is a path straightener :) So I stuck to cracking software protect.. mainly for fun..<br>
<br>Eventually I got into the IBM PC world, and pretty much stayed there until last year.. When I bought my first mac.. (Hey, its BSD now!!) but since about 1994 on I have run linux as my primary workstation, and have worked as a sysadmin in the linux world for just as long.<br>
<br>Amazing what a 4K COCO lead to in my life :) Such an influence.. I wish I still had it, just so I could put it on a pedestal and offer it windows CD's as sacrafice ;)<br><br>Oh the days of 40 columns, 16 colors.. How I miss them.. And raster chasing to get neat video effects.. oh boy...<br>
<br>-Steve<br><br>(Some of you may know me from the old days...I wont reveal my old bbs handle here. ;) )<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Jippen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cheetahmorph@gmail.com">cheetahmorph@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Man, I feel so left out. I started on Apple ][ playing games in K-2nd<br>
grade, and the first home pc was a win 3.1 system. My first computer<br>
was a pentium 166 Mhz. Didn't even get into linux until I was 17.<br>
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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Scrappy Laptop <<a href="mailto:scrappylaptop@yahoo.com">scrappylaptop@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> "Somebody had a Mac SE/30 hooked up as a web server a couple years ago."<br>
><br>
> And that ties the thread back to Linux again! I had one of those SE/30's, maxed out to 128MB of ram & using a bootloader to start up some variant of NetBSD that was on an external SCSI-I drive. It's out in the shed, somewhere, might have to dust it off, as I've heard it's now trivial to put Debian on it. Nothing sadder than a cold, powered down server...<br>
><br>
><br>
> --- On Mon, 5/11/09, Garland, David <<a href="mailto:david.garland@medtronic.com">david.garland@medtronic.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> From: Garland, David <<a href="mailto:david.garland@medtronic.com">david.garland@medtronic.com</a>><br>
>> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Commodore nostalgia<br>
>> To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions, etc." <<a href="mailto:talk@nblug.org">talk@nblug.org</a>><br>
>> Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 1:39 PM<br>
>> There was a SoCo Apple BBS back in the 80's where you<br>
>> could dl serial<br>
>> crack software, loadrunner, etc for the II e /II g<br>
>><br>
>> David<br>
>><br>
>> -----Original Message-----<br>
>> From: <a href="mailto:talk-bounces@nblug.org">talk-bounces@nblug.org</a><br>
>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:talk-bounces@nblug.org">talk-bounces@nblug.org</a>] On Behalf<br>
>> Of <a href="mailto:gandalf@sonic.net">gandalf@sonic.net</a><br>
>> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 12:30 PM<br>
>> To: General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to<br>
>> questions,etc.<br>
>> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Commodore nostalgia<br>
>><br>
>> Hehe. I was on the Apple ][ (Sonoma County Apple Pickers)<br>
>> side of things<br>
>> although I never actually got one until the 90s. I did have<br>
>> a little<br>
>> Radio Shack Coco mini computer hooked up to the tv and a<br>
>> tape player. If<br>
>> they didn't burn up in the fire I have a ton of ][s,<br>
>> ][es, a few ][gss,<br>
>> one or to ][cs and a ton of small Macs. I'll probably<br>
>> have to get rid of<br>
>> most of them. I think there is a museum somewhere in Marin.<br>
>> Ohh, I saw a<br>
>> PET at the computer recycle center a few weeks back. Hmmm.<br>
>> I might still<br>
>> have a Toshiba CP/M machine with a fricking huge double<br>
>> 5.25 disk drive.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I was thinking it would be fun to go onto irc with an Apple<br>
>> ][e.<br>
>> Somebody had a Mac SE/30 hooked up as a web server a couple<br>
>> years ago.<br>
>><br>
>> The odd thing is I now like PCs for the same reasons I used<br>
>> to like<br>
>> Apples although now I'm mostly using notebooks at home.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> (imagine a cute or dirty tagline here)<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon 11/05/09 11:43 AM , Jordan Erickson<br>
>> <a href="mailto:jerickson@logicalnetworking.net">jerickson@logicalnetworking.net</a> sent:<br>
>> > Hey all,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I know this isn't Linux related, but I thought<br>
>> it'd be cool to show<br>
>> > you a cool 'artifact' I picked up at a garage<br>
>> sale this past weekend<br>
>> > (along with a bunch of old Commodore stuff, including<br>
>> 2 C=64s, and a<br>
>> > C=128 still in its plastic wrapping!)<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> <a href="http://logicalnetworking.net/media/commodore-user-group-disk-sa" target="_blank">http://logicalnetworking.net/media/commodore-user-group-disk-sa</a><br>
>> > ntarosa.jpg<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Cheers,<br>
>> > Jordan<br>
>> ><br>
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