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COMPUTING

The hobby I spend the most time with.

Early Eighties.

My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a cassette tape drive. The tape drive was soon replaced with a 1541 Floppy Disk Drive. Later a Zenith monitor was added and a membership to CUGOS (Commodore Users Group of Springfield). The buy out of several friends' computer equipment added software and more hardware. Finally a Star Micronics NX-10 printer was bought.

1994

In December I took the big step to an IBM compatible computer. A Packard Bell Pro66TV with a 486 2/66 processor, and a Cannon BJC-610 printer joined the household. With it came learning a new operating systems. DOS and Windows 3.11 were the objects of my learning as well as new programs.

1997

A bigger and faster 200MHz CTX Computer was bought with a new Windows 95 operating system to learn. Then came an UMAX Scanner, an iomega Zip Drive, and a recordable/rewritable Hewlett Packard CD-ROM Drive, with still more learning.

1999

The Cyrix CPU in the CTX Computer died and the warranty allowed for a replacement computer. I choose a Monorail 8350 with a 400MHz Celeron and Windows 98. An Ezonics USB EZCam was also added for fun.

Now

The new thrill is to take old computer parts and build new obsolete computers. I believe there is no end to the fun and learning a computer can provide.

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Last Updated on September, 2002 by

POPofOZ alias Darrell Albers