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
1980. TRS-80 Model I with the Expansion Interface (total 48K RAM). Also the original Line Printer that you could get for these machines. I remember having Scripsit (word processing) and VisiCalc at some point as well as the Macro Assembler package. I'm still amazed at some of the stuff I was able to do with that machine: I made a 8 bit greyscale scanner with an infrared diode/transister pair mounted on the top of the printer's print head and attached to an A/D converter I connected to the Expansion Interface. It worked great! Some of the Ascii art articles of late brought back memories - I had written an Ascii art package for printing out frames from the 3D graphics engine I developed in Z80 assembler. It was the only way to get greyscale prints at the time. I even made an auto-routing PC board designer that really sped up the process of making my own boards. Ahhh, those were the days! Cheers, Drew.
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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
TANDY 1000 HX Ah, the old days. :) Jeremy Falcon
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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 'computer' I ever programmed: A Texas Instruments TI-59 programmable calculator. Even though it's called a calculator, I included it, since it taught me one of the fundamentals of programming: Keep a backup. The TI-59 could save programs on magnetic cards. I spent an entire day working on a program once, and failed to keep my backup up to date. The battery died just before I was ready to save it. First computer I ever purchased myself: The TRS-80 Model 100[^], a predecessor to the modern laptop. I eventually bought expansion RAM to fill mine out to a whopping 32K. I also bought an external floppy drive for it (it passed data to/from the computer via a 19.2K serial interface). One of the coolest things about the Model 100 was that it supposedly contains some of the last published code ever written by Bill Gates. There's an apocryphal story going around that, less than a week before the Model 100 was released to manufacturing, Bill was trying one out. Supposedly he hated the text editor so much he took the thing home and wrote a new editor for it. The editor is remarkably capable for being so small.
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