I've got one of those too, with the speech synthesizer, I
should have said "my first PC was" [Toshiba T1000 laptop].
Remember the days when you'd got into Sears or K-Mart or
some mall and they'd have a TI99 or a Commodore on the
counter with people playing games? I would get to the
machine and enter a program that would ask for a null string
input, change the screen color for a running program and
start to count to 1,000, then print this on the screen,
"Sorry, I can't Do That" Then it would loop back and wait
for any other null input. Pressing any key started the loop
again. The only escape was to turn it off. Later I put
several steps in that would get more adamant that I Can't do
that. It was fun to stand a few feet away and watch the
people get angry with the machine. Then they'd call the
clerk and they knew nothing and it would take them several
escalating people before somebody would turn it off.

I haven't don't that in about 35-40 years, I guess it
wouldn't be as much fun today. I just get phone calls from
friends asking what some message on their computer means
when they can't tell me the exact wording. Then they tell
me they have been uninstalling programs, etc.


"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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| That was a big time PC, first here was a TI-99 which I
still have. Not even
| a floppy but a cassette tape.
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| news:thjHf.79692$QW2.38366@dukeread08...
| My first computer and modem cost me about $1,800. It
had no
| hard drive, a 720 KB floppy and 1.2 MB of RAM and a 4.7
MHz
| 16 bit processor. The modem was a WorldPort external on
the
| serial port at 2400 bps but it did have compression and
| could get 4800 bits. It was DOS only but WORKS 2.0 ran
on
| it.
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| "Greg B" wrote in message
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| | "Jay Honeck" wrote in
message
| | news:wsbHf.759917$x96.396114@attbi_s72...
| | Compuserve! Now *there* is a blast from the past.
| |
| | Remember "Prodigy"? Owned by Sears, Roebuck, of all
| people! That was my
| | first venture into the on-line world...
| |
| | IIRC, there was another competitor of Prodigy and
| CompuServe around then but
| | can't think of its name. It used Gopher searches.
Also,
| BBS's were big back
| | then and some of them would sync their messages
together
| nightly using Fido
| | net. Most would run on 1,200 bps, some were only 300
but
| the 'good' ones
| | supported 2,400. Most could only have one person dial
in
| at a time.
| |
| | - I miss my 300bps dial-up modem. (yeah, right...)
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