What was your first computer?
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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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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
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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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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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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Olivetti 8086, 8Mhz, 640Kb, 20MD HDD, 5.25" FDD, EGA, DOS 3.x The included GW-BASIC was what got me started in this industry. Cheers Mike Johannesburg, South Africa
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Essam Ahmed wrote: Commodore 64 That was for rich kids! :-D
:-D That was a fun computer - it was amazing what some people got it to do. I used to run my own BBS off that system. I still have it - my kids hook up the monitor to their Nintendo GameCube system - works great! I remember I spent $800 on that system at the time - that was more than I earned working all summer :omg: Essam - Author, JScript .NET Programming
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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?"
I belive the choice was not really huge at the time. Either you went to this camp or to the Commodores. Then again, perhaps it means something. But what? Tomaz
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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.
Sinclair ZX 48k Spectrum Then an Amiga 600 and then an Amiga 1200 and then a PII 333
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