{"id":1840,"date":"2013-02-06T17:48:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T21:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2013-02-06T17:48:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T21:48:49","slug":"ibm-xt-running-procomm-plus-my-first-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2013\/02\/06\/ibm-xt-running-procomm-plus-my-first-computer.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM XT Running Procomm Plus. My First Computer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/5057_Broadway\/5057_Broadway-16.jpg.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IBM XT\" title=\"IBM XT\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/54259-2\/5057_Broadway-16.jpg?resize=640%2C436\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/big_pictures\/2009\/05\/ibm-xt-with-procomm-plus-1993.html\">posted this before<\/a> but it caught my eye again after looking at photos of some friends&#8217; old computer gear. This is my first computer in the first apartment I ever had all to myself. 1993. There&#8217;s also a boom box, a collection of poetry, two Easter Island statues, a Sony Discman, a saltshaker stolen from the company cafeteria, John Ashbery&#8217;s &#8220;April Galleons&#8221;, and other things as described <a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/big_pictures\/2009\/05\/ibm-xt-with-procomm-plus-1993.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/5057_Broadway\/5057_Broadway-16.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\">Bigger picture here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted this before but it caught my eye again after looking at photos of some friends&#8217; old computer gear. This is my first computer in the first apartment I ever had all to myself. 1993. There&#8217;s also a boom box, a collection of poetry, two Easter Island statues, a Sony Discman, a saltshaker stolen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-hoarding","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-tG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}