AskWoody at the computer museum

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HISTORY By Will Fastie In January, I invited AskWoody Plus members from this part of the world to join me at the System Source Computer Museum near Ba
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Elly, fisher75, Myst, teuhasn2, Cybertooth, jburk07, DLivesInTexas, Susan Bradley

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Looks like a great event. Nice pictures. Bet there was a lot of camaraderie between attendees. I might join you for the next event if there is room.

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Wish I could attend, but I live on the west coast of Canada. Loved seeing the Byte wall, but I was curious if there’s a similar PC Magazine wall? That was my subscription of choice…

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Fantastic, would like to visit someday, those are great memories because I lived through all of them!

 

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What? No women?

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The lines to the womens’ bathroom at technology conferences were always very very short.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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I have an IBM PC Convertible (ca. 1986): runs, I think, but haven’t had it on in years. Collecting dust.
LCD Display has one bad row. Has Display adapter, and Monitor is OK.
Only A: drive works; B: broke long ago. Have some 720K floppies too.
Would the Museum like to have it?

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The first PC I purchased was a Mac Plus like the one in the Apple photo. That was in early 1987. It was not the first PC I used, but employers could afford more than I could back in the 80s. Would definitely like to visit that museum.

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My first proudly-owned computer was a venerable early-1980s Apple IIe, bought with an “educational discount” (and even at that, a considerable $$ stretch for us as newleyweds with a very low annual income). I was tempted by Apple Lisa a few years later, but passed due to its high cost even with a school discount, and veered first into IBM PC and then Windows 3.1 when my wife inherited a pair of phased-out office computers. After that I was building my own Windows PCs.

Our family got back into Apple Macs later when my fed-up-with-Microsoft wife wanted to change OSes, and she hasn’t looked back. Though there are things about iOS I don’t like, I’m considering going that route myself, too, for my next laptop, because my Windows laptop is not eligible for Win11, and I’m not thrilled with going off-authorization this fall or feeding money to Microsoft for this forced change.

My newer and stronger desktop PC will run Win 11, and I do expect to stay to go that way later this year, if they get the next major upgrade version working better than 24H2.

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I didn’t notice any TI-4A with expansion box in the pictures.

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My first PC was an Apple II+ purchased back in 1979 with the 64 KB language card and used cassette tapes for saving/restoring programs.

And yes, it was KB not MB (ah, the good old days of 6502 8 bit computing!)

I stayed with Apple up thru the Apple IIgs and then, because that never offered any sort of upgrade path from the II family to the Mac family, I finally switch to Windows 3.11 on a Gateway laptop.

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BTSAZ1989 wrote:

What? No women?

Actually, there was one. We couldn’t find her for the group shot. And before you call me sexist, we couldn’t find two of the men, either.

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SueW

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PaulK wrote:

Would the Museum like to have it?

Maybe; I can’t really say. Contact the curator and provide details.

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WSbbeaudoin wrote:

I didn’t notice any TI-4A with expansion box in the pictures.

We posted just a few of Dave Peisner’s photos, barely scratching the surface of the museum. I can’t tell you for sure whether one is there. Even if a particular device isn’t on display, the museum’s warehouse contains ten times more artifacts than are on public view.

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