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celticgeek:
I said we should move the topic here.

Melodic:
i wanna buy a rickenbacker 4003 a whole lot

jwhouk:
Timex Sinclair ZX-80 with the 16K memory expansion module; Atari 400 with the BASIC cartridge; Mac SE with a 160 MB hard drive (!); Mac LC; Performa 6360 (which was the first one I actually bought); iBook Tangerine; iBook G3; and my series of Gateway PC's.

I have a copy on my Mac of - brace yourself - Word and Excel 4.0. That wasn't the first spreadsheet I ever used, though; I still have a converted spreadsheet from Lotus 1-2-3 that I use for calendar creation.

Oh, and I still long for an AfterDark screensaver for Windows XP-SP3.

jwhouk:
Oh, and I got a 2-XL for Christmas one year. I learned quickly it was essentially an 8-track tape player.

zadojla:
Ahh, this is better!  We knda hijacked the weekly thread.  Probably pissed off everyone under 40, and all the casual computer users.

Handheld electronic calculators (the HP-35) were not around for college students until I was in grad school.  I used a slide rule as an undergraduate.  I still have my Post lol-log Deci-trig.

And I also developed the ability to use a soroban, just to annoy my friends.

Now, I just use the calculator on my cell phone for any arithmetic I can't do in my head.  The fact that I can do arithmetic in my head astounds many younger folk.

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