{"id":16455,"date":"2012-02-24T18:34:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:34:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-24T18:34:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:34:12","slug":"open_line_friday_question_what_was_your_first_home_computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/02\/24\/open_line_friday_question_what_was_your_first_home_computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Line Friday Question: What Was Your First Home Computer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Ron in Cincinnati, Open Line Friday, great to have you here, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mega computing dittos.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZZ6u9lvnQ-s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>CALLER: I was wanting to know what you were first home computer was. I\u2019ve been wanting to know for many years. I don\u2019t believe you\u2019ve ever say.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: My first home computer was an Apple IIc.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, I remember using those in school.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, is a tiny little thing. It was not the IIE, it was a IIc, and had it for about a year and then made the plunge to a mathematic.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, was a Commodore and Commodore Amiga guy back in the day. I was getting on Internet &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; with a 65 baud modem and a Commodore 64.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That was a game console.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: The Commodore?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, you were playing games on that thing.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, I programmed the thing, ran bulletin boards back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, all I remember about the IIc is I remember Roy Scheider used one in the second 2001: A Space Odyssey.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It was 2010, whatever the sequel they made.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, yeah 2010. You\u2019re absolutely right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Bob Balaban was in it, and he was using one on the beach, and I said, &#8220;That\u2019s not possible; the screen\u2019s not bright enough to use one of these things outside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: But it used the ProDOS system as opposed to MS-DOS, and that was the first one. I was like a kid in a candy store. That\u2019s when I first started downloading. It\u2019s just Apple\u2019s version of MS-DOS, just their version of code, the operating system. It was a year later it went to the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, so it\u2019s not&#8230; It had to be 1985 that I got the Apple IIc and I had CompuServe and the Dow Jones News retrieval, and that\u2019s when I started downloading. CompuServe back then, AP didn\u2019t know what was going on. UPI did not know what was going on. You had access to everything. UPI welcome back AP didn\u2019t know it. It was so new you were able to pirate the feed. AP, it took \u2019em a few years. They figured out what was going on and started instituting now the price that you had to pay. For a while there it was cool, and Dow Jones News retrieval. The monitor was green dots, and they had an ink-jet printer (impression) that took forever to print things. (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>I did. I started e-mailing then. I started e-mailing with that computer. I don\u2019t remember what the program was. Was some &#8212; whatever was built into the IIc and quickly then went to the Macintosh after a year. But no, I\u2019ve had every top-of-the-line Mac desktop that there is. Every time they came out with a new revision, I got one. (interruption) No, I think they\u2019re gonna have one more rev of the Mac Pro in the third quarter of this year and then it\u2019s probably done. One more rev, and I can\u2019t wait \u2019cause it\u2019s the only thing they\u2019ve got that doesn\u2019t have Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is this wicked fast data transfer. 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