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  • L l a u r e n

    zx81 with a wobbly 16k ram pack :)


    situations to avoid #37:
    "good morning ... how many sugars do you take in your coffee ... and what was your name again?"

    coming soon: situations to avoid #38: "...and the dog was there too?"

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    Nish Nishant
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    lauren wrote: zx81 with a wobbly 16k ram pack Dating yourself here, eh? :-) Nish


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      My first computer: 5 years ago when I graduated from university. An Acer PC, Pentium 266MHz, 3G hd, 32MB RAM, Win95. Maxwell Chen People say "No news is good news". Then, no code is good code!?

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      Nish Nishant
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      Maxwell Chen wrote: 5 years ago when I graduated from university. An Acer PC, Pentium 266MHz, 3G hd, 32MB RAM, Win95 Wow! That's pretty heavy for a first computer :-) Nish


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        Tandy/Radio Shack TR80 Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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        Nish Nishant
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        Norm Almond wrote: Tandy/Radio Shack TR80 :omg: That must have been aeons ago, eh Norm? Nish


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          Maxwell Chen wrote: 5 years ago when I graduated from university. An Acer PC, Pentium 266MHz, 3G hd, 32MB RAM, Win95 Wow! That's pretty heavy for a first computer :-) Nish


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          Maxwell Chen
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          I am a newbie. LOL :-D Maxwell Chen People say "No news is good news". Then, no code is good code!?

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            I am a newbie. LOL :-D Maxwell Chen People say "No news is good news". Then, no code is good code!?

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            Nish Nishant
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            Maxwell Chen wrote: I am a newbie. A 10 year newbie eh? Nish :-)


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            • N Nish Nishant

              Maxwell Chen wrote: I am a newbie. A 10 year newbie eh? Nish :-)


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              Maxwell Chen
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              Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: A 10 year newbie eh? A 5 year newbie!! I started to learn computer and C/C++ since October in 1998. Maxwell Chen People say "No news is good news". Then, no code is good code!?

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              • L l a u r e n

                zx81 with a wobbly 16k ram pack :)


                situations to avoid #37:
                "good morning ... how many sugars do you take in your coffee ... and what was your name again?"

                coming soon: situations to avoid #38: "...and the dog was there too?"

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                Anders Molin
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                lauren wrote: zx81 with a wobbly 16k ram pack Me too :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

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                • N Nish Nishant

                  I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish


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                  Giles
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                  Atari 520 ST. They were the days.:(( :(( I've still got it, and get it out everynow and again. Still works. :)

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                  • N Nish Nishant

                    I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish


                    Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :- http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/ Feel free to make your comments.

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                    Kannan Kalyanaraman
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                    80386, 260MB HDD(later upgraded to 540MB), 4 MB RAM (later upgraded to 8 MB), 1.44 / 1.2 FDD, DOS 5.0 Kannan

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                    • N Nish Nishant

                      I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish


                      Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :- http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/ Feel free to make your comments.

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                      Michael A Barnhart
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                      Two answers depending on what you call a computer and how far own goes. First one in my family that I used was a Wang 720 (they are in musuems) First one I actually purchased was a vic 20. You can do things with 4k of memory and none of those fancy hard drives. To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step towards Knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli

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                        8088 with 640K RAM, Amber monochome monitor with Hercules graphics, 5.25" floppy, 20Meg HD (Yes Meg, not Gig) --- CPUA 0x5041 Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him...is he still wrong?

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                        Jason Hooper
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                        Of the replies so far, mine was closest to this one. It's the same specs, but with a macho graphics card. CGA. 4 colors. ph33r. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) "I just recieved an email from myself but I didn't send it ?"       - Colin Davies, Sonork conference

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                          I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish


                          Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :- http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/ Feel free to make your comments.

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                          peterchen
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                          Mine was a 80286/1MB Ram/40 MB HD 1.2 MB FD, Hercules Monochrome graphics card


                          "You see the spoon? You see the spoon?" my teacher always asked. But all I saw was frogs. Kruin, BGII

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                            I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish


                            Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :- http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/ Feel free to make your comments.

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                            Shay Erlichmen
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                            Apple IIe no HD 14" green and black screen 360KB 5.1" floppys 64KB RAM (which was need to be upgraded to 128KB) it had BASIC build in the ROM andd it was the 1st computer that i ever program more then 15 years ago. Then at the age of 13 i got Amiga 500 (the best computer ever!) it had 512KB RAM Kickstart 1.2 OS (i upgrade it to KS 1.3) still no HD (it cost too much) 720KB 3.5" floopys i played games that had 64 colors at 320x200 res. On this cumputer i programed C, C++, Pascal, AMOS (the bast BASIC ever) fortran, 64xxx ASM. From then it's a blur of x86, today i'm running P4 1.6Hz 512MB RAM 120GB HD that cost me the same the my 1st computer.

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                              I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish


                              Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :- http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/ Feel free to make your comments.

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                              Laurent Kempe
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                              I had a ZX 81 with 1 Ko RAM and a 16 Ko RAM extension and tape reader. If you want to see the beast, I may shoot a picture :omg: At this time I programmed it with Basic and assembly. Laurent Kempé Tech Head --- Old programmers never die, they just branch to a new address.

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                                I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish


                                Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :- http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/ Feel free to make your comments.

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                                Phil Speller
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                                Original ZX Spectrum - with 48K RAM and dead-flesh feel keyboard. I orginally wanted a ZX81 but couldn't afford the £99 to buy one (being 12 and getting only £1/week pocket money). Free

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                                • N Nish Nishant

                                  I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish


                                  Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :- http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/ Feel free to make your comments.

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                                  Gary R Wheeler
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                                  TRS-80 Model 100. It was arguably the first laptop. It wasn't a PC. It had a Z80 processor, running at 2 MHz. I bought the 'big' one - it had 24K of RAM, and then I bought another 8K to fill it out to its maximum of 32K RAM. It included an 8 line by 32 character LCD display. It would connect to a parallel printer, RS-232, and included a 1200 baud modem. It also would save data and programs to/from audio tape. Reportedly the Model 100 had the last major piece of code from Microsoft authored by Bill Gates (the builtin text editor inside was written by him). I still have the machine. :) Gary R. Wheeler

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                                    Norm Almond wrote: Tandy/Radio Shack TR80 :omg: That must have been aeons ago, eh Norm? Nish


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                                    NormDroid
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                                    :-O Showing my age Nish I've also had ZX81, Spectrum, Atari ST, Amstrad 286PC... the list goes on. Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                                    • L l a u r e n

                                      zx81 with a wobbly 16k ram pack :)


                                      situations to avoid #37:
                                      "good morning ... how many sugars do you take in your coffee ... and what was your name again?"

                                      coming soon: situations to avoid #38: "...and the dog was there too?"

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                                      NormDroid
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                                      yeah tell me about it, I had a real of cellotape hold mine on. I used to spend hours keying in programs out of magazines, only to lose the whole list when the ram pack moved. :| Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                                        - Emanuele - wrote: In italy it had a short life Heheh, they didn't do so well here either; almost drove TI out of business in fact; but it was a fun machine :) --------_**

                                        People they come together People they fall apart. No one can stop us now 'cause we are all made of stars...

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                                        Emanuele 0
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                                        Yes it was fun! But for some people IS FUN! Try to search for TI99/4A on Google you'll find a lot of site...I downloaded a screensaver! bye - SONORK ID 100.17421 : b0nu$ -

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                                          I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish


                                          Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :- http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/ Feel free to make your comments.

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                                          Erik Westermann
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                                          Atari, Apple...geez - you guys should have started with the only *real* computer.......

                                          :) Commodore 64 :)

                                          * 1 MHz processor * 64K RAM * 5 1/4 inch floppy drive that has a capacity of an amazing 170Kb, which you could double when using both sides of the disk! Ducks - expecting somehting to be thrown in this direction Essam - Author, JScript .NET Programming
                                          ...and a bunch of articles around the Web

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