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Homebulletgrey.gifeNewsletterbulletgrey.gifVolume 27bulletgrey.gifYour First Machine

What Machine was YOUR First Programming Fun

Every programmer remembers that first machine they got their fingers on. Those clunky boxes and true floppy diskettes of yore. FairCom employees went in search of a past relic to present to our company president for Christmas.

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The Osborne -1 Portable, vintage 1981. (And oh what stories it brought back.) Sporting a 4 MHz Z80A microprocessor, 64 Kb of RAM and a 5" monochrome monitor, this robust machine was designed for rugged environments. (Think hacker apartments and dark basements.) A truly portable, flexible (remember why they call them floppies?) workhorse, our president spent many, many hours glued to the enormous screen loading CP/M into the wee hours of the morning. Our specimen even came with the original WordStar on those floppies!

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Barring any recent C compilers for this breakthrough machine of its time, we'll try to keep him focused on our next release.

What was your first love? Send us your stories! We love to hear from our users. And we're always looking for those original c-tree applications still running reliably everyday around the world. We hope to share the most interesting ones with you soon.

Citibank's MTMS-32 application provides secure Internet financial transactions for international corporate operations. The most demanding cash management and commercial transaction requirements for managing international organizations are delivered by FairCom database technology with all the performance and security expected from Citibank. MTMS-32 is designed to protect and secure the vital financial data required by today's multinational corporations.

The MTMS-32 client side application is designed to operate on all 32 bit versions of Windows and Citibank depends on FairCom's portability for the FairCom Windows NT and FairCom Novell NLM Servers for back end processing. Installation projections indicate over 4,000 multinational corporations in Asia will be using FairCom database technology to provide them the mission critical financial operations required in today's global economy.

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