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  • epson ecotank

    From Rob Mccart@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MORTAR on Friday, April 10, 2026 08:56:51
    At one time owning a computer put you in the 'elite' club..

    And if you built them, others were in awe of you. Of course, to
    >maintain that mystique you never told them /how/ you built it.
    >Yeah, it was a good time to be a nerd.

    It was quite something when I think back on it. I'd never even
    touched a computer when I started buying parts to build my
    first one, and it was hard enough to pay the bills at that time
    since I was carrying a house mortgage on my own after a breakup.
    Even building it myself it would take about 2 weeks income to
    buy the parts, so that was a big expense at the time.

    I was thinking of buying a cheaper system, likely a Commodore 64,
    when I ran into a friend in a mall that I hadn't seen for years
    and we got talking about it, since he was working with computers,
    and he told me how I could build something better for less money.

    And I guess the rest is history..

    I must have been reading too many Science Fiction books back
    then making me feel that I just HAD to get a computer.. B)

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  • From Bf2k+@VERT/TACOPRON to Rob Mccart on Friday, April 10, 2026 21:03:24
    Re: epson ecotank
    By: Rob Mccart to BORAXMAN on Wed Apr 08 2026 08:09 am

    My situation with computers and related equipment was a little
    different because I was an adult, 27 or 28, before they even
    became an option. I owned a house before I got my first computer.

    Me too. I think I was 27 when I got my first Atari800 computer... and I too already owned a house. 1981 or 82 I think.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Bf2k+ on Saturday, April 11, 2026 09:47:32
    Re: epson ecotank
    By: Bf2k+ to Rob Mccart on Fri Apr 10 2026 09:03 pm

    My situation with computers and related equipment was a little different
    because I was an adult, 27 or 28, before they even became an option. I
    owned a house before I got my first computer.

    Me too. I think I was 27 when I got my first Atari800 computer... and I too already owned a house. 1981 or 82 I think.

    Weird, I to was 27 when I got my first computer, a Commodore Vic-20, soon followed by a TRS80 Color Computer 2.

    Denn

    ...Rate yourself as a programmer on a scale of 0 to F.

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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT/CAPCITY2 to BF2K+ on Sunday, April 12, 2026 07:52:28
    My situation with computers and related equipment was a little
    > > different because I was an adult, 27 or 28, before they even
    > > became an option. I owned a house before I got my first computer.

    Me too. I think I was 27 when I got my first Atari800 computer...
    >and I too already owned a house. 1981 or 82 I think.

    I bought my first house in 1975 when I was just 21 years old..
    Very small and needed work but it was a start, and I lived there
    and fixed the place up over the next 10 years. Then, over the next
    18 months or so I bought and sold 2 other places before I gave up on
    the city (and normal society) and moved up here to my cabin in the
    woods on the shores of Georgian Bay..

    Temporarily, you understand.. I figured I'd soon go back to
    work in a normal job/situation again pretty soon..
    That was 39 years ago.. It hasn't happened yet.. Maybe soon.. B)

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