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Larry Caldwell writes:
My first PC was a Reynolds and Reynolds TC-1000, designed to be a smart terminal for a DEC PDP-11 at General Motors. Smart terminals were not PCs. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Larry Caldwell writes:
My first PC was a Reynolds and Reynolds TC-1000, designed to be a smart terminal for a DEC PDP-11 at General Motors. Smart terminals were not PCs. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Larry Caldwell writes:
My first PC was a Reynolds and Reynolds TC-1000, designed to be a smart terminal for a DEC PDP-11 at General Motors. Smart terminals were not PCs. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Larry Caldwell wrote:
[] My first PC was one I built myself and had no connection to any mainframe. Your first PC was years after they were common in the business world. My first PC was a Reynolds and Reynolds TC-1000, designed to be a smart terminal for a DEC PDP-11 at General Motors. The first kits were designed to get affordable computers into the hands of home experimenters, but they were a long ways from leading edge technology. No. My own PC preceded my business PCs by about ten years. My first PCs were around 1975, and the S-100 system I subsequently built around 1977 had a hard disk and high resolution graphics. At this stage our business was still using a 300 baud teletype to access a mainframe. I was responsible for the purchase and running on a DEC VAX system (the PDPs were not powerful enough for us) and all of the access was via dumb terminals until we got the Retrographics VT640 add-on (perhaps around the start of the 1980s?). PCs did not start to appear with us until the early-1980s (and they were not even IBM clones). I actually bought the very first IBM PCs for my company, and that was the AT model (6 MHz) in 1985. Its high-resolution graphics was an EGA video card.... Cheers, David |
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Larry Caldwell wrote:
[] My first PC was one I built myself and had no connection to any mainframe. Your first PC was years after they were common in the business world. My first PC was a Reynolds and Reynolds TC-1000, designed to be a smart terminal for a DEC PDP-11 at General Motors. The first kits were designed to get affordable computers into the hands of home experimenters, but they were a long ways from leading edge technology. No. My own PC preceded my business PCs by about ten years. My first PCs were around 1975, and the S-100 system I subsequently built around 1977 had a hard disk and high resolution graphics. At this stage our business was still using a 300 baud teletype to access a mainframe. I was responsible for the purchase and running on a DEC VAX system (the PDPs were not powerful enough for us) and all of the access was via dumb terminals until we got the Retrographics VT640 add-on (perhaps around the start of the 1980s?). PCs did not start to appear with us until the early-1980s (and they were not even IBM clones). I actually bought the very first IBM PCs for my company, and that was the AT model (6 MHz) in 1985. Its high-resolution graphics was an EGA video card.... Cheers, David |
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Larry Caldwell wrote:
[] My first PC was one I built myself and had no connection to any mainframe. Your first PC was years after they were common in the business world. My first PC was a Reynolds and Reynolds TC-1000, designed to be a smart terminal for a DEC PDP-11 at General Motors. The first kits were designed to get affordable computers into the hands of home experimenters, but they were a long ways from leading edge technology. No. My own PC preceded my business PCs by about ten years. My first PCs were around 1975, and the S-100 system I subsequently built around 1977 had a hard disk and high resolution graphics. At this stage our business was still using a 300 baud teletype to access a mainframe. I was responsible for the purchase and running on a DEC VAX system (the PDPs were not powerful enough for us) and all of the access was via dumb terminals until we got the Retrographics VT640 add-on (perhaps around the start of the 1980s?). PCs did not start to appear with us until the early-1980s (and they were not even IBM clones). I actually bought the very first IBM PCs for my company, and that was the AT model (6 MHz) in 1985. Its high-resolution graphics was an EGA video card.... Cheers, David |
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