[LAU] [OT] first computer ?

[Brad Fuller]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> 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.

you did your thesis on a computer? fancy. ;-)