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My Mastodon Posts June 2020
- Graphics Tools Poll https://floss.social/@ademalsasa/104322353322133383
- List of Distros Officials https://floss.social/@ademalsasa/104309257301275277
- Graphics Tools List https://floss.social/@ademalsasa/104341045707458765
- User Friendly Resources https://floss.social/@ademalsasa/104303641285042714
- Awesome Free Software https://floss.social/@ademalsasa/104352228377420642
- Peertube Guide for YouTubers https://floss.social/@ademalsasa/104235340156599605
- Librehost Overview of Mine https://floss.social/@ademalsasa/104034618932368527
- Libre Speed Test https://floss.social/@ademalsasa/104019444489789834
- Alternative World vs Gafam https://floss.social/@ademalsasa/104001452551058243
What was your first computer?
Please share if you remember the brand, model number, CPU or how great it was. Boost is very appreciated.
@ademalsasa Not sure which radio to check: Atari XT 8088 (must have been close to this one: http://www.ataripc.net/pc3-8088/) with a Bernstein EGA monitor and a 20 MB hard drive. I remember having used a special driver to steal some kB from the EGA turning it into a CGA, so I ended up with 640k FREE RAM when the system was loaded. Ought to be enough for everybody, someone™ said in 1992…
Oh, and my floppies had 800k (punching a hole into the 360s and using another driver) 
@IzzyOnDroid thank you, Izzy. Glad to find an Atari user.
@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social@ademalsasa Though it was just their PC (well, even that used a couple of original Atari hardware). The Atari ST I just gaped on open-mouthed at a friends place, seeing its musical capacities…
Fun fact: the first ones I've used were Commodore's C16/C64/C4+. A friend had the latter one, but no "hard money" left for a printer, so he built an adapter for his electrical type-writer's line buffer. He demonstrated that once to me: machine gun fire sound, poor grandies were running for the shelters