What was your First Computer? :)
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
BBC Model B with a whopping amount of RAM - 28K (I think). Bought a floppy disk drive and many ROMs to insert into the motherboard. Good machine and, of course, the computer that ran the best computer game EVER - Elite. I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
Olivetti 2x86 10mHz, 1 MB RAM, 20 MB Harddrive (partioned into 11 and 9 MB - I didn't opt for the 40MB harddrive, because ... who needed *that* much space :D). I bought it in 1992 when I was about to go to "high school", using money I'd earned from my paper-route :D It surprisingly still runs today, although with a Y2K error - and the original monitor is dead I recall. Ahh - the memories ... :D --------------------------- 127.0.0.1 - Sweet 127.0.0.1
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
My first was a kit computer based on the National Semiconductor SC/MP chip from the June 1977 issue of Electronics Australia. 256 bytes of RAM. Amazingly the /MP part of the chip's name meant MultiProcessor - way back then some people were thinking of how to do multiprocessor systems. Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^]
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
48k ZX Spectrum :). God that was fun. The best bit is i still have it. Its in my mums attic. The only problem with it is the membrane has gone by the Z key which means it needs a good thump to get it to work (hense a large dent in that corner). that made it prety much impossible to program on as the spectrum ahd allt these extended unction keys which i couldnt use without the left ctrl key :((:(. I might hve a look at it now though. Jon
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
None owned an MSX one? I bought a Sony 201P with 48 Kb. At that time (1985) was a fantastic computer. I really had fun with it.
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
The first I used at home was my dad's a Commodore PET 90. My own was an Atari STe 520. Saying that not sure if an Atari 2600 games console counts?
"Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table. Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
Atari 400 with 4k of RAM. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
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48k ZX Spectrum :). God that was fun. The best bit is i still have it. Its in my mums attic. The only problem with it is the membrane has gone by the Z key which means it needs a good thump to get it to work (hense a large dent in that corner). that made it prety much impossible to program on as the spectrum ahd allt these extended unction keys which i couldnt use without the left ctrl key :((:(. I might hve a look at it now though. Jon
Not being a regular poster here at CodeProject (I'm a stereo-typical lurker), just thought I'd mention that some of us still use ZX Spectrums. Aah the joys of coding in z80 assembler. Anyway, thought I'd give a link to somewhere I know that I think still sells ZX keyboard membranes, in case you decide to fix it... www.sintech-shop.de[^] Cheers, 'bod
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Atari 400 with 4k of RAM. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
I recently bought an illustration book on computer history with pictures from the earliest of systems to the present ones and it was astonishing looking at the first mouse and the first portable system hehe. Would be kinda cool if a Museum existed with all those different computer system. From the very first systems to the modern pc. Would be even more cooler to see ENIAC or UNIVAC on display hehe. It would be a huge one. Always trust your techno lust
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Not being a regular poster here at CodeProject (I'm a stereo-typical lurker), just thought I'd mention that some of us still use ZX Spectrums. Aah the joys of coding in z80 assembler. Anyway, thought I'd give a link to somewhere I know that I think still sells ZX keyboard membranes, in case you decide to fix it... www.sintech-shop.de[^] Cheers, 'bod
Thanks. I think i'll check that out. Jon
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
First video game console: Atari 2600 First computer: Commodore C64 Greets Roland
Wenn der Computer wirklich alles kann, dann kann er mich mal kreuzweise.
(Manfred Schmidt)
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
I bought myself a ZX81 in 1982 using my entire life savings (of £45 - I was only 11). My parents had refused to buy one for me for my birthday because it would only be a 'fad'.:sigh: (It wasn't.) After that I had an Oric Atmos, Commadore 64 and an Amiga 500. I got a PC in 1993 (and haven't bought another one since - I use a work laptop at home).
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
In about 1973 it was a WANG 720 with memory for about 2000 program steps or about 120 variables. Soon I changed to the newer model 2200 with ROM-Basic and 4k memory. (By the way, ONE 320k floppy at that time could be bought for about 20 DM, that is about 12 US$!) ;) I still own this (running!) model. It is amazing to let compete it with a PC in incrementing a number. When the PC gets an integer overflow, the 2200 is still counting in the hundreds. Peter Schlang Software-Entwicklung und -Beratung (This item consists of 100% recyclable bits and bytes!)
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Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust
The first one I had access to was my Dad's Apple /// - a 6502 with 256kB of RAM and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. When he later fitted a Z80 coprocessor card to it I taught myself Z-80 assembler under CP/M 2.2. The first machine I owned myself was an Amstrad PCW8512 CP/M+ box. With a memory upgrade it had a whopping 1MB of memory! The PC I owned was a Dan Technology 16MHz 386SX with 2MB of memory in 1990. It cost me £1150 - how things have changed! Nowadays, I have an Acer Travelmate 8006LMi laptop (2GHz Pentium M) and an Athlon 2500 desktop box. :cool: Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
