On Wed, 25 May 2005, Richard Hoffbeck wrote: > At the risk of dating myself I still have a tan case Osborne 1 in my > hallway closet. The good old days of holding a bunch of 180K floppies in > your teeth for each pass of the compiler, plus the linker, made hacking > more of a sport than it is today :-) My first computer was a TRS-80 "CoCo" II. It was made the same year I was. I got some books and taught myself BASIC, and later Z-80 assembler on it. I remember in 5th grade, I programmed it to calculate pi (squaring the circle method). I let it run for 4 days straight, and I don't remember how far it got, but I know it wasn't very far. I used it for years until we got an XT. It sat in my closet for a long time while I progressed through the x86 generations. About 7 years ago I powered it up and it ran fine - I loaded a couple of disks and they seemed to read okay. But when I moved a year later, I took it with and it apparently didn't survive the move. Appears to be a PS problem, but I've never had time to work on it. I'd love to revive it someday.