Ok guys. Bragging rights goes to the first one to run Poser 5 on any version of Linux using any version of Wine. :) :) :) :) P.S. I think the manual for upgraders is done using hand set type then printed one page at a time on a platten press. Bwahahaha! :)

Okay, here's a success story: my first computer was an Atari 800 with 32k memory. I then bought a 4"x4" Koala pad, which was like a Wacom tablet. With that and the software that came with it I could draw using 4 colors (on my TV screen, natch), which were then dithered to create 16 colors. I could save the files to 5.25" disks, and I could then print using a printer that I forget the name of - it used tape to transfer the colors - each page took about a half-hour. All of this was done on a starving artist/student budget. I used this as an art major at the University of Kentucky in the early 80s. Several of my pieces were accepted in juried shows, and one for a traveling art show (the naked upper torso of a woman!). I was the first UK art major to do computer graphics. Now I'm the Senior Computer Graphics Specialist with a company contracting with the US EPA, making good money. And with all that said, WHERE'S MY POSER 5?

My first printer was just a regular electric Smith-Corona typewriter that had an interface attachment ($70 extra) that I hooked up to my TSR-80 computer (which was hooked up to the TV for a monitor). It was sooooo sloooowwwww!!! But it was all I had. Melanie

LOL, let's hear it for the old fossils, especially the printers. The CommodoreMPS printer I bought back in the early 80's still works, of course considering how little it gets used, that's understandable. But.... The Epson 9-pin that I bought with my first IBM in the mid 80's has been in continous use since it was bought and is still going strong with all it's original parts. When I upgraded, I gave it to my parents and they are still using it ot this day. But you look at these inkjets that come with the computer these days or the less expensive ones you buy and they break down within a year.

My first Printer was for the Atari 400. It was a dot matrix type that used rolls of adding machine paper. I think it printed 40 columns wide on 4" wide paper. As far as I know it still works, (It did the last time I played with it,) but I bet getting a ribbon for it would be a little difficult.

I heard it's only going to be available for the Commodore 64 in basic language. The manual will be printed on a dot matrix printer where all the characters don't print correctly. And you can forget high resolution and color. How is that for scary? Now we can forget about all the registration problems.

Does anyone remember the DEC-10 (no hard drive), the Xerox 850/860. The 850 had a one liner (and cassette tapes) while the 860 had a full screen (and big floppies). The Exxon word processor (wonderful machine). The MagCard machine. I think it took 8" floppies. I used to do all my personal stuff on them at work, then when PCs came out I had to retype everything over again because the disks were too big. Fax machines with that roller that the paper adhered to and a needle went back and forth. Took an hour to send one page.

I certainly remember the Vydec word processor by Exxon with the huge 8" floppies. You had to save each page of a document separately. No multiple page documents. It looked like an airline cockpit with a huge panel of buttons and lights on it. It's the very first word processor I ever worked on and learned word processing on. After that, I changed jobs and had to learn Wang word processing and I thought that was the ultimate machine, so much so, I wished I had one at home. From there, I moved to standard PC that didn't even have Windows yet, still on DOS WordPerfect. What a pain. My office finally upgraded to Windows. Heck, at the office I'm in now, we're still on Windows 98, with Win 2000 Office Suite. Melanie

I have an instruction manual and disks for IBM DOS by Microsoft.

I have PC DOS buried amongst the 5.25s and how about PC tools 1.0? or the first Zork? or even the outstanding graphics 4-color CGA graphics of King's Quest I?? LOL