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I was born in Minnesota, but lived in many places throughout the United States. I was a Navy Brat - that is my father was in the United States Navy. We lived in each place for around four years then moved on to the next Navy Base.
Although Dad was in the Navy, he didn’t spend time on ships. He worked predominantly in land-based Helicopter squadrons managing the repair operations. Ultimately programming and performing database administration. Dad brought home a Compucolor II as our first PC in the late 1970’s. At that point, the machine was breaking technology - home based computing; WOW!
So at about the age of eight I began playing with computers. In a short period I understood every piece of the hardware, operation, and basic programming. I remember installing 32 individual chips to increase the memory 64 KB. Just think, in the space that our first PC held Two Kilobytes of memory we can now hold about Eight Gigabytes.
Over the years we had several PC’s. Dad was so proud of our Zenith 286 with EGA (Enhanced Graphics Adapter) that when we weren’t using the system, a demonstration program would be run to show off the colors and resolution. Lotus 1-2-3 ran so much better when I installed the Math Coprocessor (80287).
The VGA Wonder board we installed was the most amazing, life like addition we could put on our computer. Well, until we installed a Sound Blaster. Extremely few games had the realistic sound support for Sound Blaster, so it came with a couple. Eight bit sound was the bomb - sound effect.
You get the idea, I grew up with the PC. Compucolor, Intecolor, Kaypro, NEC, Tandy and so on. My High School was so proud of the IBM PC AT computers that replaced the old TRS-80 machines in the PC Lab. The teachers would accentuate the “A-T” when speaking about the computers.
How about that serious floating point flaw in the Pentium Processor? Rumor had it that 80486SX processors were 486 processors where the built-in coprocessor failed and was disabled. If this were true, I guess all first generation Pentium Processors were SX chips. SX, that’s short for Sucks. You could probably classify the Celeron chip in the same category as the earlier SX chips.
Ah - memory lane.
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