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17. Packard Bell XT PC clone

Sun Aug 29, 2021, 02:58 PM

Aug 2021

While I got online with my Apple ][ I never set up an email address. It just wasn't done in 1982 when I bought the Apple. By the time I got the Packard Bell, email was fairly routine. I signed up for The Source community but didn't do much there. When CompuServe bought The Source, I got into the online forums there, using TAPCIS since CS charged by the minute. Eventually, as the CS forums were dying, I found this place through someone on the CS Democratic Forum. The CS in my user name is for CompuServe!

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What was the first computer you used to access email? [View all] jmowreader Aug 2021 OP

A Gateway something 1997 or 8 maybe. Srkdqltr Aug 2021 #1

I remember the day those two huge 80lb boxes showed up at my door NightWatcher Aug 2021 #26

mac powerbook 160 DBoon Aug 2021 #2

the last 8088 series of cpus before the pentium series . win 95. AllaN01Bear Aug 2021 #3

Acer Boat Anchor dweller Aug 2021 #4

a Motorola Mac clone..... bahboo Aug 2021 #5

An Atari XL something. Compuserve and AOL. TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #6

We had Ataris, too. GPV Aug 2021 #8

I still have Ataris. I have determined that this will be the year they sell on eBay. nt Earth-shine Aug 2021 #23

Yours sounds awfully familiar Pas-de-Calais Aug 2021 #7

My roommate's computer left-of-center2012 Aug 2021 #9

that would have been my 2nd or 3rd. mopinko Aug 2021 #10

A 286 series Turbineguy Aug 2021 #11

still have it in a drawer Kali Aug 2021 #12

VaxStation 2 Tetrachloride Aug 2021 #13

IBM 360 mainframe with 3278 terminal. N/T Foolacious Aug 2021 #14

DEC PDP-11 with terminals; Multics a bit later unc70 Aug 2021 #15

PDP 11/70 with HP 2621 terminal Klaralven Aug 2021 #16

Packard Bell XT PC clone csziggy Aug 2021 #17

Sounds about right for me. MLAA Aug 2021 #18

Commodore 64 IggleDuer Aug 2021 #19

Same here. cinematicdiversions Aug 2021 #28

IBM 4381 mainframe and 327? terminal. sinkingfeeling Aug 2021 #20

HP unix workstation zipplewrath Aug 2021 #21

AST Premmia466e lastlib Aug 2021 #22

IBM-type PC. 1994 Earth-shine Aug 2021 #24

IBM 360/75 running MVT CloudWatcher Aug 2021 #25

I initially used a Telex machine to send 2-way Backseat Driver Aug 2021 #27

IBM AT Xoan Aug 2021 #29

Not the first I used, but the first I used for email was a Windows 95 of some sort! n/t Akoto Aug 2021 #30

Hewlette Packard I_UndergroundPanther Aug 2021 #31

Leading Edge desktop Submariner Aug 2021 #32