Your First Development Machine?
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ZX Spectrum 48k[^] 1983 & at home. Mostly stuff from Byte magazine and stuff garnered from the BBC's various publications at the time. I wonder how many times the Spectrum has paid for itself since I started coding for a living, probably the best financial help my Grandma ever gave come to think of it.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
Hooked up to the tele?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps. I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
BBC Micro B[^] in 1987
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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps. I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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ZX Spectrum 48k[^] 1983 & at home. Mostly stuff from Byte magazine and stuff garnered from the BBC's various publications at the time. I wonder how many times the Spectrum has paid for itself since I started coding for a living, probably the best financial help my Grandma ever gave come to think of it.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
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Nope, it was Input, not Byte. Funny how your mind plays tricks on you like this. They might even be in my parent's loft, I'll see if I can shin up there for a trip down memory lane. And I learned more from the mistakes, and the bits I had to fill in when the paper shop failed to deliver an issue, than I did from the main articles.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
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Hooked up to the tele?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Of course. And you could plug headphones into the output jack used for the tape recorder to listen to glorious 1-channel mono sound. Happy Days.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps. I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
PDP-11 at the high school. First home system was an Amstrad 1512. Replaced the DR-DOS (or whatever) and its GEM interface X| with MS-DOS 4. Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++.
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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps. I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
386dx-33, in 92/93. It even had a Tseng Labs 24-bit svga adapter. Still got the book for DR-DOS 6.0 somewhere. Tried Turbo Pascal 6.0 for a few months before giving up in disgust and moving onto TASM. A slowish machine (as compared to machines available in 93), low memory-4mb, 64kb segmented memory and no floating point unit all helped one to hone a comprehensive understanding of the architecture. Though I never did get around to bank-switching the vga card to make use of any video modes needing more than 64k of memory. Directly programming the OPL registers in the sound-card was some fun too - none of this protected memory stuff. Just raw, naked access to the hardware. Yeah baby! Extremely limited vectors for catching virii tend to make one happy to have access to all memory at once. Video Mode 0x13h - oh how I remember thee!
char *screenPtr = 0xA0000;
screenPtr[x + y*320] = color;"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps. I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
I started puttering around with drawing shapes in ascii using tandy basic on Trash-80 color 2 with 4k of ram in the late 80's. Depending on if you counted the schools computer or my parents, my first real programming was turbo pascal on a 386 with 1(?)mb ram (theirs) on a 486-25 with 4mb in '96. I first got paid to develop on a D600 with a PM-1600 and either 2 or 4 GB of ram in 2005.
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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps. I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps. I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
One of these: Commodore 64[^].
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
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One of these: Commodore 64[^].
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps. I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
IBM-PC AT (80286, 6MHz), 512K RAM, 20 MB hard disk, 2x floppy drives (5.25" 260K, 5.25" 1.2M), Hercules CGA video card, Princeton Graphics System color monitor, Okidata 192 Microline dot matrix printer, Rockwell 300 baud modem, MS-DOS 3.0, Lattice-C compiler. Also 1985. /ravi
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Ditto
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Mike Mullikin wrote:
Ditto
I've never heard of a 'Ditto'. Was that a special model? :-)
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
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Mike Mullikin wrote:
Ditto
I've never heard of a 'Ditto'. Was that a special model? :-)
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps. I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
In high school, Commodore PET with 16K of memory. Learned Commodore BASIC in class; self taught on Assembler.
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IBM-PC AT (80286, 6MHz), 512K RAM, 20 MB hard disk, 2x floppy drives (5.25" 260K, 5.25" 1.2M), Hercules CGA video card, Princeton Graphics System color monitor, Okidata 192 Microline dot matrix printer, Rockwell 300 baud modem, MS-DOS 3.0, Lattice-C compiler. Also 1985. /ravi
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:thumbsup: Somehow Ravi, your post has reminded me of a particular scene from the Futurama series. The one where Bender is getting all hot and bothered at seeing the circuit diagrams of old robots.
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps. I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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:thumbsup: Somehow Ravi, your post has reminded me of a particular scene from the Futurama series. The one where Bender is getting all hot and bothered at seeing the circuit diagrams of old robots.
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
I had to Wikipedia Futurama and Bender. :) /ravi
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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps. I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Depending upon how you define development, it's either
- FORTRAN on an IBM 1800
- FORTRAN and Assembler on a VAX/VMS Cluster
- FORTRAN/C/Assembler on IBM PC/AT 12 MHz/1 wait state/40MB HDD w/PC DOS 3.1
For those who know: FEED -> REGISTER -> RELEASE
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"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
