What was your first 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
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C64. but i first used a Commodore PET. -c
I don't care, and you can't make me.
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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
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Got a TI99/4A when I was 11, back in 1986. Taught myself BASIC on it so I could make Space Invaders aliens dance around the screen. It had no permanent backup so I had to reenter the program each time. The got an Apple IIE. Then a 486 which I started using Borland Turbo C++. Good ole days. Josh Knox that-guy.net
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie.
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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
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:-D No one has the same first computer as me! Acorn Electron, 6502 processor, output on tv! Wrote my college project in assembler on it. Cost me a £10! First PC - Amstrad 1640, 40Mb Hard disk and I was really proud because it had a CGA display, cool.... :cool: ali p
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Hey Nish, That was my first computer too (the first one I owned anyway) and I'm 35. David http://www.dundas.com
David Cunningham wrote: That was my first computer too (the first one I owned anyway) and I'm 35. Oh, I see :-) If you hadn't mentioned the 35, I'd have put you in the 45+ group that I put Norm into :-) Nish
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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
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I had an Atari 800 -Jack To an optimist the glass is half full. To a pessimist the glass is half empty. To a programmer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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Mine was an Adam what used audio-like casettes. I worked on that thing night and day realizing that after 18 years I had finally discovered the one thing I enjoyed and do very well. I completely taught myself to program (casette Basic) and wrote, as my first application, a football game. Man, what I wouldn't give to be able to go back and see that code now :) Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C# Author, Visual C++.NET Bible A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the af
Tom Archer wrote: Man, what I wouldn't give to be able to go back and see that code now I understand. I still wish I could have saved my floppies from 12 years back :-( which contained my first programs some of them in GWBASIC :-) Nish
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IBM 8088. No harddrive. Single floppy. I started typing in BASIC programs from magazines at the tender age of 8. w00t! Todd Smith
Todd Smith wrote: IBM 8088. No harddrive. Single floppy. Thats the same one we had in school. With green monochrome monitors :-) I still remember booting up from the floppy and it used to take so long then ;-) we thought. Now it takes 10 ten times that much time to logon to XP :-) Nish
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Got a TI99/4A when I was 11, back in 1986. Taught myself BASIC on it so I could make Space Invaders aliens dance around the screen. It had no permanent backup so I had to reenter the program each time. The got an Apple IIE. Then a 486 which I started using Borland Turbo C++. Good ole days. Josh Knox that-guy.net
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie.
Josh Knox wrote: It had no permanent backup so I had to reenter the program each time :omg: :omg: :omg:
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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
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One of my uncles was really into computers, so back in the early 80s I'd get hardware from him as he upgraded. I started with some TI model (don't think it was the famous 99/4A, some earlier model) and the included BASIC manual, but I couldn't really make sense of BASIC back then (hey, I was only like 10 years old!). It wasn't until an after-school class on BASIC using Apple //e's that I actually started doing programming. --Mike-- Buy me stuff! (Link fixed now) Like the Google toolbar? Then check out UltraBar, with more features & customizable search engines! My really out-of-date homepage Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
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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?"
Thank you Laureen. With my 29 I feel old among these youngsters. I started with ZX81 with 1k, :-) followed by ZX Spectrum 48K, Amstrad CPC 464, Atari 520 ST, IBM PC XT 640Kb RAM/4Mhz/10MB HDD/Hercules...Oh, well. Regards, Tomaz
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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. :)
Those were the days. Campus word processor, Lattice C and GEM... Regards, Tomaz
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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
Michael A. Barnhart wrote: You can do things with 4k of memory 3583 bytes, actually. ;) --Mike-- Buy me stuff! (Link fixed now) Like the Google toolbar? Then check out UltraBar, with more features & customizable search engines! My really out-of-date homepage Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
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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
I worked as a delivery boy at age 13 to upgrade from ZX Spectrum to Amstrad (Schneider) CPC 464. It was a luxury computer, with beautiful monitor, 640 x 200 resolution, 80 chars screen width and built in tape. >:-) Plus, it talked Z80, which I learned on Spectrum. Tomaz
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Thank you Laureen. With my 29 I feel old among these youngsters. I started with ZX81 with 1k, :-) followed by ZX Spectrum 48K, Amstrad CPC 464, Atari 520 ST, IBM PC XT 640Kb RAM/4Mhz/10MB HDD/Hercules...Oh, well. Regards, Tomaz
> IBM PC XT 640Kb RAM/4Mhz/10MB HDD/Hercules Or was it 8Mhz? Can't remember anymore. :-) I just know it had absolutely charming orange screen, which was different from them green screens of neighbourhood peasants. :cool: Tomaz
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Thank you Laureen. With my 29 I feel old among these youngsters. I started with ZX81 with 1k, :-) followed by ZX Spectrum 48K, Amstrad CPC 464, Atari 520 ST, IBM PC XT 640Kb RAM/4Mhz/10MB HDD/Hercules...Oh, well. Regards, Tomaz
i am rather gob-smacked tomasz the list of computers you have exactly matches the list i would make wierd but cool :)
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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Michael A. Barnhart wrote: You can do things with 4k of memory 3583 bytes, actually. ;) --Mike-- Buy me stuff! (Link fixed now) Like the Google toolbar? Then check out UltraBar, with more features & customizable search engines! My really out-of-date homepage Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
I actually had a VT100 terminal emulation program going. Although trying to keep up with the 300 baud modem was a little tricky :) To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step towards Knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli
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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 WebEssam Ahmed wrote: Commodore 64 That was for rich kids! :-D
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Got a TI99/4A when I was 11, back in 1986. Taught myself BASIC on it so I could make Space Invaders aliens dance around the screen. It had no permanent backup so I had to reenter the program each time. The got an Apple IIE. Then a 486 which I started using Borland Turbo C++. Good ole days. Josh Knox that-guy.net
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie.
Josh Knox wrote: It had no permanent backup so I had to reenter the program each time. :) Boy do i remember that! I've still got notebooks filled with BASIC code that i wrote for this purpose; i can tell you, my typing improved drastically from using that machine :-D --------_**
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Norm Almond wrote: Tandy/Radio Shack TR80 Norm - mine was the same. Called it a Trash-80. Casette input / output. 4k of RAM. Bought it in '79 for $600.00
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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
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An Apple /// (OK, so it was my Dad's ;))...6502 processor with 128k of bank switched memory, one 5 1/4 inch floppy disk, no hard disk and a green screen monitor. X| A little while later we fitted a Z-80 card which ran CP/M 2.2, which is when I really started learning. :) Andy Metcalfe - Sonardyne International Ltd
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