Your First Computer...
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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!
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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!
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
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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.
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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
The first computer I wrote a real program on was a PDP11 and the first computer I owned was a C64. The C64 was excellent; all those accessories you could get!! I've not been as excited about a computer until I recently bought an Acer Aspire! :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
Nobody has mentioned my first "owned" computer... A Radio Shack Color Computer. This had a 6809 based microprocessor running at a whopping 750kHz. With certain "POKE" values (found in RAINBOW Magazine you could double that!!). You could get memory of either 4K or 16K (with additional 16K ROM in both version). In later years I was able to upgrade to 64K. God, I loved that thing! Even its crappy chicklet style keyboard...
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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 machine was "Meritum", Polish TRS-80 clone with 16K RAM (upgraded later using soldering gun to 48K). In mid 80s, behind Iron Curtain intellectual property of "rotten West" wasn't an issue :-) Second was MSX 48KB (made by Philips). In 1991 i bought PC/AT clone with 1MB and floppies 5,25" and 3,5", and added 40MB ATA HDD 3 months later.
-- Jarek Andrzejewski
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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
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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
Timex Sinclair which had 2k Ram with a 16k Memory "upgrade" Cartridge, a Tape Recorder to save/load data, a TV for a monitor... I was 10 Years old.. I haven't stopped programming since (27 years and counting) I think I can write "Hello World" in a zillion different languages now :) Maybe I would have been better off with a simple pencil and paper, wrote Hello World on it and have been done with it :) LOL
Know way too many languages... master of none!
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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
Technically, My first was my dad's ZX80, but I never did much with it. The first computer I bought myself was back in '02. A dell inspiron tower with peripherals running Win98, 1024x monitor, office printer, and a copy of XP... for $40 at a library auction. 10 hours later and a copy of visual studio, and I was a happy teen.
Carpe Diem la Iesous, Aaron, ComposerDude
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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
The first compture I owned was an Aquarius. More of a video game system, but it came with a manual that included a bunch of BASIC programs that would make a little running man on the screen and things of that nature. That's what got me interested in programming. http://oldcomputers.net/aquarius.html[^]
Mark
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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
Well my real 1st was a C64, but I have fond memories of the Philips gaming console I got right before that, when I was 9 or 10: I bought a cartridge which allowed to program it in pseudo-assembler. It was my very first go at programming, and from then on the road was chosen! The BEST computer I ever had was an Amiga 3000. I got the top model and upgraded it further, and it was a monster of a machine for the time it came out. I owned (and still own in part) almost all of the Amiga models, and that was by far the greatest. Nostalgia indeed!!! :)
2+2=5 for very large amounts of 2 (always loved that one hehe!)
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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
Amstrad 6128 with Monochrome Display. Locomotive Basic and CP/M. Old good days.
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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 I programmed was an RM 380z link to 380z on wikipedia First I owned was a zx81 http://oldcomputers.net/zx81.html[^] then Jupiter Ace http://oldcomputers.net/jupiter-ace.html[^] followed by Amstrad CPC464 Atari ST512FM 486 PC, then PCs 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
First computer I used was a DEC PDP-10 programmed by punched cards, later with teletype. Then a PDP-8E which had 8K of memory, I was ecstatic when I upgraded it to 12K. First computer I owned was a Cromemco Z-80 with 64K of memory and 8" floppy disks (and at work I was still using my 12K of memory).
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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
You guys are making me feel old! Actually, the Vic 20 and Commodore 64 were definitely my generation, but I was in the enemy camp: Atari 400! After that, an Atari 800. I actually learned to program on the 400. In addition to all my game cartridges, I had a BASIC cartridge that I found to be the most fun of all. Still reaping the benefits of that... Incidentally, I'm 41 now. I couldn't afford a new sports car for my mid-life crisis, so tracked down an Atari 400 on eBay instead. It's now displayed proudly in my office, along with "Centipede", "Dig Dug", "Star Raiders" (great one), and, of course "BASIC". How cool is that! :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
First computer I used - Control Data 3200 - in college - FORTRAN programming class. First computer I owned - Xerox CP/M computer with an 8080 (I think) installed so you could switch between CP/M and DOS. It had an 8-inch floppy disk drive (320KB I think) and a 10MB hard drive in an external case. Used it to write documents using WordStar and to dial into bulletin boards (ah ... Fidonet).