[LAU] [OT] first computer ?

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 21:42 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:47:05AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
> 
> 
> > What was your first computer ?
> 
> BBC B. 32k ram, later expanded with 100k floppy disk. 
> My loved one at the time wrote her >300 page degree
> thesis on this, printed on a loaned daisywheel printer
> using a driver written in BASIC. We used to set up
> things to print a few tens of pages and go to see a 
> movie, hoping the rattling would have finished
> without a paper jam when we came back.

that was the 2nd computer i used, after one whose name i don't quite
recall. but i do remember going to print my final year thesis in college
and starting it, waiting, doing the calculation and realizing it would
take about 1.5 days to complete.

as they say ... good times, good times.

--p