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It was 1967 and there were 3 systems installed in the Data Processing Center at Texas A&M University. The very first computer I used was an IBM 1401 with 4,000 characters of memory. When I think back about 6502 (reasonably speedy at… 1 MHz) or Z-80 or even MC68000, I was far from figuring correctly how powerful CPUs would be more than 40 years later and how much it would be interesting to have a GPIO onboard for people wanting to learn a bit of electronics and/or realize what they have in mind. RPI4 was quite a shock either visually speaking, you see many pictures, even of a RPI4 in a hand, you take a graduated ruler to imagine the thing, but you (well, I) do not realize how small it really is until you see unbox it - the second shock was the raw power it can deliver.
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Naturally, this lead to SBCs, oddly not so long ago, because I was waiting for such a SBC as the Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM with the aim of being able to supply a very-cheap-but-not-that-weak computer to people that are missing the money needed to pay for a x86 - and it's not only these people that are interested in, but also those who do not need 64 cores with half a Tera of RAM because they have the most basic usage of a computer, such as reporters, that mainly have to read articles and thei e-mails, watch videos and TV and write, nothing much more than that. Looking backward, it is amazing what we were able to make and achieve with so few memory and display, comms, etc limitations may be my taste for the Linux command line comes from there - that also lead to a concern about programs always being able to run on older hardware without problems something that so called web developers (and many others in fact) should take in account when they develop new "code" on their 128 cores with 512 GB of RAM that can't run under a consumption of 50-100 MB RAM or even more and bloats so much that some can't work correctly if you don't have a recent computer…
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Then came a diskette drive which Apple manual was written in 2 colors: black for questions and green for answers, unfortunately, after page 24, the green was definitely missing from the printing - which gave me a great taste (and skills) to investigate about hardware functionalities X-Windows based desktops became practical for everyday use as 16/32MB RAM machines became affordable, and for my job at the time (admin at a 1,000+ line dialup ISP) the tools available in the GNU world became indispensable to me.Īn Apple][ with 48 KB of RAM with a cassette recorder as mass storage.
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Some time around the late 90s I switched to mainly running Linux on my workstation, OS/2 was basically dead despite being an excellent platform for TCP/IP networking that was starting to become prevalent, and Linux distributions were really starting to shine.
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This ended pretty abruptly soon after Windows 95 came out, as OS/2 never gained the ability to run 32 bit Windows applications.
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And using native OS/2 software was a dream scenario for me, there was a reasonable amount of it around at this time as IBM was actively promoting it as an alternative OS. Windows was absolutely terrible at that kind of stuff, OS/2 was actually substantially better at multitasking DOS/Windows software than real DOS/Windows was at that time, provided that you had enough RAM.
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With this I ran mostly OS/2 because of it's stability and multitasking capabilities, being able to download files from a BBS while playing a game at the same time was very impressive stuff for a PC in those days. I just realized I've been avoiding using Windows for essentially as long as it has existed.Īround that time I started earning my own money delivering newspapers and fixing computers (mostly fixing computer users), and eventually saved up for a 486DX2/66 IBM Aptiva with 12MB of RAM and a 1.2GB hard drive. Windows 3.x ran alright for what it was but I was never happy using it. It was also the first computer I ran OS/2 on, but it struggled a bit with low RAM. That was my first Linux computer, somewhere around 1991/92, installed Slackware from 3.5" floppy images I downloaded at 14.4kbps from a local BBS. Next was an XT clone with 640KB RAM and a 20MB hard drive, followed by a 386DX/25 with 4MB of RAM and an 85MB HDD. First computer was a Coleco ADAM, 80KB RAM (read it and weep C64 people), and "high speed" digital cassette storage.Īs you may know that platform died a horrible death and was possibly the worst purchasing decision my parents ever made.