ErikTheHack
June 19th, 2007, 03:30 PM
Greetings all!
I've been a member a while but never posted an intro and decided that I should.
I became addicted to computers or at least the idea of computers back in the 70's watching Star Trek re-runs and other SciFi and going to work with my dad who was a systems analyst for UCSD at the time. The trips to the data-center there just blew my mind.
Later I got a taste of actually getting to use a micro on my buddy's Apple ][+. Then shortly after I saw the object of my first techno-lust at the local mall's computer store -- the glorious Atari 800! That was it for me. I had to have an Atari micro. My parents reluctantly obliged and gave me an Atari 400 for christmas in 1980. Shortly after came the Atari 800 -- I needed the "full-stroke keyboard". Then an Atari 800XL, Atari 520ST, Mac 128, Atari MEGA ST 2, Amiga 2000, NeXTcube, NeXTStation -- A long progressing line of platforms.
I ran 2 BBSes in the course of the 80s -- well really one with a name change really: "Point of Entry" which later became "Someware On-Line". Calls dropped off and I shut down in 1990.
Things got muddled in the late 90's what with PeeCees becoming ubiquitous information appliances. As early as the early 90s though I was already missing the halcyon days of the 80s with all the computer diversity. I think this is mostly why I collect. I miss those days. That and wanting to own the things I couldn't afford back then ;)
Thanks!
I've been a member a while but never posted an intro and decided that I should.
I became addicted to computers or at least the idea of computers back in the 70's watching Star Trek re-runs and other SciFi and going to work with my dad who was a systems analyst for UCSD at the time. The trips to the data-center there just blew my mind.
Later I got a taste of actually getting to use a micro on my buddy's Apple ][+. Then shortly after I saw the object of my first techno-lust at the local mall's computer store -- the glorious Atari 800! That was it for me. I had to have an Atari micro. My parents reluctantly obliged and gave me an Atari 400 for christmas in 1980. Shortly after came the Atari 800 -- I needed the "full-stroke keyboard". Then an Atari 800XL, Atari 520ST, Mac 128, Atari MEGA ST 2, Amiga 2000, NeXTcube, NeXTStation -- A long progressing line of platforms.
I ran 2 BBSes in the course of the 80s -- well really one with a name change really: "Point of Entry" which later became "Someware On-Line". Calls dropped off and I shut down in 1990.
Things got muddled in the late 90's what with PeeCees becoming ubiquitous information appliances. As early as the early 90s though I was already missing the halcyon days of the 80s with all the computer diversity. I think this is mostly why I collect. I miss those days. That and wanting to own the things I couldn't afford back then ;)
Thanks!