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Yesterday, while cleaning up, I discovered a box of old invoices.
I wondered how much electronic stuff I had already bought in my
life and decided to write my IT CV ...
My technical CV - part one - the 80th ...
In this decade I became a programming, Casio, Sinclair and
Unix fan!
My "IT career" started in 1982, when I needed an "advanced"
calculator for school. I asked my older cousin, who attended a
higher technical school, what calculator he would recommend.
After a lot of good advices, also from others, I bought a
Texas Instruments TI-55II
1982 --+- Texas Instruments TI-55 II (Programmable Calculator)
| First I wondered: Programming, who needs this nonsense?
| then it became the first device I ever programmed ...
|
1983 --+- Casio FX-702P (BASIC programmable Pocket Computer)
| I asked a friend to bring me some chess computer
| brochures and he brought me a Sharp Pocket Computer
| leaflet (it was the Sharp PC-1211). Because the Sharps
| were to expensive, I bougth a Casio and became a
| programming (and BASIC) fan ...
|
--+- Sinclair ZX-Spectrum 48k (Homecomputer)
| In the same year I bought a Sinclair Spectrum in a shop
| in Switzerland. That's why I paid my first Homecomputer
| in Swiss francs. I started my next career as a Sinclair
| fan ...
|
--+- Casio PB-700 (Pocket Computer)
| In 1983 I also updated my FX-702P with the PB-700.
| A friend of a friend brought it from Germany, where
| one paid less than in Austria. This I used all five
| years in the Higher Technical School (HTL), my most
| loyal companion in mathematics, mechanics ...
|
1984 --+- Multiuser UNIX V System w/Terminals (at the HTL)
| I cannot remember exactly the manufacturer - I think
| Perkinelmer.
| Beginning with Sand (Silicium) - we really learned it
| from scratch. Handling of Unix V, programming in BASIC
| and Fortran 77, bash scripting. I loved it! I also
| learned, that # is something special ...
|
1985 --+- Sinclair QL
| With the QL I entered a more professional corner of
| the computer universe, and learned, that computers can
| be very expensive and even Sir Clive Sinclair can be
| wrong ...
|
1987 --+- Autocomputer PC-XT Turbo (IBM Compatible 8088)
| My entry in the Microsoft universe, MS DOS 3.2, 5 1/4"
| floppy disks. The PC was imported directly from Taiwan
| via a computer club. I also bought a Philips monochrom
| Monitor and the Teco VP-1814 9-Needle-Matrixprinter.
|
--+- "EDV-Grundlagen" (Course)
| In spring '88 I attended the first of many computer
| courses: "Computer basics" with a written final exam.
| The trainer also benefited: I copied him a lot of MS-
| DOS software - can I still go to prison for this?
|
1988 --+- Casio PB-1000 (Pocket Computer)
| My last Casio. Very interesting model, but I don't
| used it a lot.
|
--+- Seagate ST-125 (internal Harddiskdrive)
| An upgrade for the PC-XT with my first HDD. It had a
| gigantic capacity of 20 MB!!
| Years later I found a Virus on the FD with the
| Diskmanager ...
|
--+- Commodore PCs (at school)
| The UNIX System at school was replaced by Commodore
| PCs and MS-DOS. Several teachers became fanatic Larry
| Laffer gambler and I missed Unix ...
|
1989 --+- Sharp SF-9000 (Organizer)
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| The most expensive Gadget in absolute numbers. I paid
| 220.000 - Paraguayan Pesos. I bougt it in Asunción,
| Paraguay in summer 1989 - over 40° Celsius and 101%
| humidity pushed me in my hotelroom with AC and gave me
| enough time to discover my first organizer.
| NB: May god bless the inventor of the AC, the essential
| wonder of mankind.
|
...
to be continued
