Your First Development Machine?
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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
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"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
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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
At Caltech (Fall 1974) it was a DECsystem KA-10 (all discrete logic, no integrated circuits, core memory, 1usec cycle-time) timesharing system. Programming in Basic, FORTRAN and assembly! First employment: summer 1976, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Univac 1108, FORTRAN. Analyzing fuel consumption of the attitude control system of the Viking Mars Orbiter.
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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 11/23 running RT-11 K&R C Compiler
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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
Mine was a ZX Spectrum 48k which I received as a pre-Christmas present back in 1983. I spent most of that night up playing Flight Simulator[^]. My only real piece of coding on it was a database engine, I wrote, that could save 12 records.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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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
Our school had a PDP-11 I started on in the mid 70s. First one I had was a Franklin Ace 1000 a couple years later.
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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
That looks like a luggable that my boss made me tote to Mexico when I was working down there. It was a Compaq[^] and weighted a freakin ton, 2 tons if you where in a hurry to catch a place at the other side of the airp0ort and had to be there in 5 mins.. Semper Fi
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright
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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 got selected to learn programming in 4th grade on an Apple II+ by my elementary school teacher. (1982-83) Our district got enough machines to put a half dozen in each school but there was no formal curriculum at the time so it was all pretty unofficial and ad-hoc. When I got to high school in 87, our computer teacher was awarded one of IBM's first Teacher of the year awards for his program "reach out and byte someone" (1988) which taught students how to use dial-up resources like CompuServe to help with research projects. Big Blue donated an entire lab full of PS2's networked to a server all running Netware. It was amazing at the time and really put some fire to the districts' computer cirriculum. I started learning Pascal on that network in '89. Gave me a big leg-up when I got to college.
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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
The first was a main frame using Fortran and input via punch cards. I will leave this off the list as whilst it was my first dev machine, it wasn't owned by me. ZX81[^], Spectravideo[^], A Sony modular Computer?, TRS-80 Model 4 with 128k memory[^] Then IBM PC, 286, 386, 486, P3, P4, i7. Looks like that picture of an ape changing into a man.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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BBC Micro B[^] in 1987
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Mine was a ZX Spectrum 48k which I received as a pre-Christmas present back in 1983. I spent most of that night up playing Flight Simulator[^]. My only real piece of coding on it was a database engine, I wrote, that could save 12 records.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
GuyThiebaut wrote:
that could save 12 records.
I hope you mean, "all of 12 records". :-D
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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
CDC3300
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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
C64 in late 1982. Used Basic and ASM. Later got GEOS and played some C on top of it...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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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
1981 :: NASCOM 2 kit :: Z80, 2kB RAM, 2kB ROM, 8kB NAS BASIC, about 100 TTL chips on a 12x8 inch motherboard, all socketed, all hand soldered. Took about 3 months to build. Added some extensions like a 64kB DRAM board and a home designed programmable character generator. There was a Z80 assembler on tape which is what I used for most developments. I had a video monitor and I do recall having to hack the flyback circuitry to get a stable image. Not for the faint-hearted... Those were the days, when developers had to know how to solve clock skew introduced by 6 inches of ribbon cable (solution: cut 3 inches out). Now, I can't even distinguish two adjacent pins on a surface mounted chip.
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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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That was a neat machine that time, I had one of those :)
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Ah yes. ICL 1904 with card punches and a batch reader back in 1980. :)
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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
For real work, it was one of these bad boys[^], running the Dataflex 3GL. For my first computing and program experience, I bout a ZX81[^] kit and got out my soldering iron.
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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
Professionally it was a TI-990 mini computer
