Your First Computer...
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leppie wrote:
And then the keyboard broke, and I got banned from using it
And you had nothing to do with it? :)
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
Altair 8800 ZX80 ZX81 Jupiter Ace Memotech MTX512 (still got this one) Sinclair QL (still got this one) Atari ST and then I encountered the Dark Side (PCs), and it's been downhill ever since.
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
First programmed -- the high school's PDP-11. First at home -- Amstrad 512 (or whatever) First of my own -- 486SX clone At my first computer job -- MicroVAX 3600
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
CDC6600 - Kept behind the closed doors and never touched by mere mortals. One put a card deck in your assigned box and checked back in 24-48 hours to get your output. Usually saying there was a keypunch error in the card deck. EAI4800 - 48K of ferrite core memory that filled a room the size of a two car garage with a teletype style interface. One could sign up for a block of dedicated time, if your project had enough priority. And if I brought donuts and coffee, the operator would actually let me mount a tape or touch the keyboard! Only on second or third shift of course so the management didn't see us subverting the system. PDP-8 - Had to love those paper tapes for storage. Much easier and faster to destroy than a card deck. First "PC" was an Apple II with 8K of memory, serial number in the 800 range. Pure magic! I could actually run a program and see the results on a 13" TV! Of course I couldn't save it until a year later when they hacked a cassette tape storage system. But I did some real engineering work on that Apple. Kid's play today, but very cool back in the day of slide rules and 4 function calculators. I could have done a lot more if the janitor's hadn't kept unplugging it to plug in the vacuum cleaner at night!
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
Univac 1108 fed by punch cards IBM 360 with 3270 terminal Commodore VIC-20 IBM PC-AT at work Tandy 1000 at home . . .
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
My first computer before C64 was the one and only completely finnish designed and manufactured computer Telmac TMC-600. http://www.hobbylabs.org/telmac.htm[^] Exactly like in the picture with red background. Few years ago I asked my mother for the chances that they might still have that computer because I didnt take it with me when I first time moved out. Well, no chances :( Edit: Another link in finnish museum which has this computer model: http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/cgi-bin/page.cgi?pkpcode=telmac[^]
modified on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:24 PM
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
I grew up very poor; had to wait for a very long time to own a computer. The first one was a Windows 98 machine (2Gig hard disk, with 128 MB RAM). But now, I'm running on spanking good hardware. Seriously. :)
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Atari 800XL on which I learned to program basic, it all started there! Amiga 500 Amiga 1200 And then a boring 486SX PC with an astounding 4Mb of memory.
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MidwestLimey wrote:
Atari 800XL on which I learned to program basic, it all started there!
Same here! Went to an IBM PS/2 model 25 from there, though.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Developer, Author (Guardians of Xen)
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I had two A500's -- the original system and the A500+ (sold the original to get the A500+). Then I bought a sidecar expansion with 3 mb of RAM. Never did get the hard drive or the 486 bridge card for it though. :( Used to install some of the games into a RAM disk to mimic a very tiny hard drive. Best way to play games like Pool of Radiance and Wizardry 6 without needing to swap disks all the time. Also had some great graphics and rendering software for it. And, AMOS Basic was a blast. :-\ Flynn
I'd forgotten all abour Amiga Basic. I wrote a complete bespoke stock control and accounting package on that (very rough!), no CP or Google back then. Just the documentation that came with it which was pretty good if I remember correctly.
Dave
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus) -
Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
Commodore VIC 20 with a huge 3.5K RAM and a data-cassette for storing software on audo tapes. I learned BASIC and assembler on that machine then moved to the C64, then the C128, then finally my first IBM PC clone with 512K RAM (who would ever need more that was almost $600 for that much RAM) and 1 floppy drive and a green screen video. Thought I hit the big time when I finally bought another floppy so I did not have to swap them all the time :) Oh yeah, and when I moved to the IBM PC Clone, I got Microsoft C and Lattice C which both worked off a floppy disk :)
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I'd forgotten all abour Amiga Basic. I wrote a complete bespoke stock control and accounting package on that (very rough!), no CP or Google back then. Just the documentation that came with it which was pretty good if I remember correctly.
Dave
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)Amiga Basic was pretty capable. AMOS[^] was more geared toward games, but there were a number of impressive utilities built with it as well, including disk copying utilities and Total Commander-style file explorers. I had pretty much all the versions of AMOS availalble -- the original release, the 3D add-on (not mentioned in the Wikipedia article above), AMOS Professional, and even Easy AMOS, which was geared toward learning programming. I really learned a lot on that system. :) Flynn
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the adults of tomorrow will be no fun...
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I so coveted the Vic20 but by the time I could afford one the C64 was out and I thought that was kaka.
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The first one I bought was a Vic20 (chosen because the data drive record volume didn't change every time you wanted to listen to Boy George). First I programmed on was an IBM 1130 (then a series of BCLs, LogAbax, Apples, and PC lookalikes)
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
Apple II Plus. 1983; I think it cost me $1400 with everything. I sold it a year later minus the printer for $1250. Bought a 1979 Honda Civic CVCC. I don't know the first one I "used"; it was something at GE. A PDP-11 was in there somewhere. The first one I programmed where I knew what I was doing was an Apple II.
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I believe it was an Amiga 400, that's the first thing that comes to mind anyway!
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you probably meant either the Amiga 500 or the Amiga 4000 my 2nd and 3rd machines were Amiga 1000 & Amiga 2000 the first was a variation of a Smoke Signal Broadcasting 6809 based system - 5.25" 360K floppy, 32Kb of RAM, clock rate I believe was 4MHz - $4000 :omg:
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
VAX PDP 4e... ABC80 -- a swedish computer, built around Z80 Osborne 1 and Executive -- no needs for any weightlifting to stay in shape :-D
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
BBC Master Compact, then various Acorn Archimedeseses and a Risc PC before defecting to the dark side. Loved the Compact apart from the crappy green screen whose lines were far enough apart to be clearly visible!
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
TRS-80 From Radio Shack, complete with cassette drive + 2 joysticks and 16k of memory. Got it when I was like 8 yrs old. Wrote my first code on it (BASIC). Still got it in my closet. Anyone want to buy it? :cool:
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Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
1984: PDP 11/23 1985: Some type of IBM mainframe (don't remember the model) 1986: PDP 11/44 1987: VAX 750, IBM PC (4.77MHz) 1988-1994: VAX minicomputers (4000 series), Rainbow (from DEC), IBM PC/XT (with 10MB hard drive), IBM PC/AT, AST (80286), Gateway 2000 laptop (with a processor equivalent to 80286), AST (80386), Compaq 1994 and later: Don't remember model numbers: Cray, nCube and some other multi-CPU machines to do parallel processing, Sun, Sun Workstation, PVM on Sun Workstations to do parallel processing, PC's with Intel CPU's such as Dell, Gateway, AT&T, and some no-name brand machines.