What was your First Computer? :)
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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.
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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
1995, Pentium 166 with 64MB RAM, 2.1GB hard disk and Windows 95. I've had 'older' machines since then, but that was the first computer I owned.
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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
Commodore 16 then Acorn Electron (with the Plus1 expansion) then Acorn Archimedes A3000 Sam W
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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
1982: Apple ][+ with extra 16K module to bring it up to 48K! ooooooooo I paid for it myself in high school, science fair bonds, after school work (bag-boy at Grocery store), and a .. side business at school (no, not drugs). edit: and the first one I programmed: was 1980, TRS-80, that a friend got as a christmas gift and wanted to learn how to program Basic. He couldn't learn from a book, I could, so I learned and taught him. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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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
Home-built on a wire-wrap board. Intel 8080 processor (2MHz) 256 bytes (yes, BYTES) RAM 1K EPROM Hex keypad and 4+2 digit LED display. Single 8-bit I/O port could be hooked up to home-built interface hardware. Wrote my own monitor program (we didn't really speak of "operating systems" then) in Assembler to live in the EPROM. Wrote programs in machine code to run in the RAM using the hex keypad. If you haven't developed code that way you haven't really lived!
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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 had a Packard Bell 80286. It had 1 meg of onboard ram and could not be upgraded. 10mB hardrive. I played a game called Centurion a lot but I also had Bass Fishing and some other unknowns on 5.25 floppys. Brett A. Whittington Application Developer
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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!)
psc_exec wrote: WANG 720 Yes they do not make them like that anymore. The one I worked with, had the memory expansion module. 1/2 the size of a desk to add 4kb and wired to an IBM Selectric (sp). It was finally retired in about 1998 (30 years of service) when the last repairman (locally) that knew how to work on it died. I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that I can think of.
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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 :)
I'm an old BBC-head from way back as well. If you liked Elite then you might be interested in this[^] :-)
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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
A ZX Spectrum 48K Mark 2 (The mark 1 and 2 had a dodgy colour thingy that meant when the computer heated up all the colours went horrible and brownish)
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psc_exec wrote: WANG 720 Yes they do not make them like that anymore. The one I worked with, had the memory expansion module. 1/2 the size of a desk to add 4kb and wired to an IBM Selectric (sp). It was finally retired in about 1998 (30 years of service) when the last repairman (locally) that knew how to work on it died. I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that I can think of.
Michael A. Barnhart wrote: psc_exec wrote: WANG 720 I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that I can think of. Nice to hear from another person who admires WANG 720. I like to remember the old "1205 1408 ..." 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
Acorn Atom with 1k RAM (512 bytes for video, 512 for programs). Upgraded to a total of 12k and a switch that let me double the clockrate to 2MHz after loading space invaders. Gary Marc Clifton: "In other words, VB is like a bad parent. It can really screw up your childhood."
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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
TRS-80. I can still hear the screeching of programs loading from the cassette tapes. :) BW
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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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A ZX Spectrum 48K Mark 2 (The mark 1 and 2 had a dodgy colour thingy that meant when the computer heated up all the colours went horrible and brownish)
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Ah. Mine were both Issue 4A I think. Yes, I had two Spectrums. We got the second one free with an Interface 1! The previous owner had installed a 3rd-party keyboard on the second one, which was actually not much better than the standard rubber-key job. The reason for buying the Interface 1 second hand was because ours had failed - due to an overheating EPROM - and it looked like the cost of having it fixed would exceed the cost of the second-hand hardware. This wasn't the first time it had failed, I think we got through about ten ROM chips on both Interface 1s (yup, the second-hand one failed too). I wouldn't have been bothered but my dad - at the time a local councillor - had built a planning applications database based on the Microdrives; this was a family computer, not just mine. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder