![]() ġ969! BASIC was only five years old, having been invented In 1964 by John G. There were running a new language called "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" which was. It was part of the teletype, with the cylinder of characters and typewriter ribbon, that was linked to the Kemeny Computation Center at Dartmouth College upstate in NH. doesn't everyone have a bottle opener on their computer case, starting back when they were 12?)Įdit to add: In case anyone is wondering how the heck a 12 year old managed to convert an industrial 8-coax input monitor to run off VGA, it was easy for me I had a neighbor who was an electronics engineer, who told me what was needed, plus helped on the internal changes. So, I had a non-Microsoft compatible Microsoft bus mouse.Īh, wait! I DO still have one original bit of hardware in the current configuration! It's just on the outside of the tower case. The only problem with it is it wasn't Microsoft compatible (Several types of Microsoft software could not recognize it). One of my favorite parts of the original configuration was a bus mouse. (I did have to make some changes to the cabling and frequency, but yep, it was free - a company was literally throwing it out and let me have it). They really hated me when I told 'em I got it for free. Friends (gamers especially) were always impressed by that huge (for the time) monitor. ![]() ![]() Heh, that old 386 system was great for its time, mainly because I maxed it out on Ram, plus had a re-purposed Cad/cam monitor (about 26") as the monitor. I think the last original bit I had was a 3.5 floppy drive, removed only because my new MB doesn't support it. I kept that old steel tower case for many years, until I finally went with a new tower case (also heavy steel). I skipped right to the 586 (Pentium) when I eventually put in a new MB. The 486 had been out for a year or so when I built the 386-based computer. ![]()
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