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  • D Dalek Dave

    Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

    ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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    Something like this: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/06/pong_kit.html[^]

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    • D Dalek Dave

      Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

      ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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      Nemanja Trifunovic
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      Dalek Dave wrote:

      The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K

      Same here. 48K looked like a lot of memory these days :)

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      • D Dan_Martin

        I had a Commodore 64 which I had for many, many years of my childhood and learnt to program on. Then I had a succession of PCs that I found less and less endearing in turn.

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        Dalek Dave
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        I had a friend who saved for ages and ages and bought himself a VIC 20. About a month later the C64 came out and he cried for a week! He couldn't give the Vic away.

        ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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        • D Dalek Dave

          Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

          ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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          C64 Amiga 500+ Amiga 1200 Boring PC

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          • D Dalek Dave

            Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

            ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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            Chris Losinger
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            first i used was a PET first i owned was a C64 first i bought with my own money was a no-name PC

            image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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            • D Dalek Dave

              Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

              ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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              John M Drescher
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              Commodore vic 20

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              • D Dalek Dave

                Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

                ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                Mark_Wallace
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                I had a huge Wang (don't go there!) given to me by a customer, who had upgraded to an IBM something-or-other. I later *upgraded* to a speccy.

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                • D Dalek Dave

                  I had a friend who saved for ages and ages and bought himself a VIC 20. About a month later the C64 came out and he cried for a week! He couldn't give the Vic away.

                  ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                  Mark_Wallace
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                  I've just realised that still pronounce Vic 20 as "Vic venti" -- I was in Italy when it came out.

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  • D Dalek Dave

                    Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

                    ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                    Lost User
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                    S100 crate, Z80A cpu.

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                    • D Dalek Dave

                      Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

                      ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                      Flynn Arrowstarr Regular Schmoe
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                      First computer I ever used was a Commodore Vic-20. First I ever owned was a Commodore 64. :) From there, I bought an Amiga 500. I had that for a long time then sold it after software became nigh impossible to find and got a generic 286 system. I miss my Amiga *sigh*. Flynn

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                      • D Dalek Dave

                        Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

                        ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                        Nagy Vilmos
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                        First used was RM 280/Z First programmed on an early Apple; can't remember for sure which. First bought Oric1 First accelerated [1] Tullip 8086 Laptop. [1] Managed 9.8m/s/s


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                        • D Dalek Dave

                          I had a friend who saved for ages and ages and bought himself a VIC 20. About a month later the C64 came out and he cried for a week! He couldn't give the Vic away.

                          ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                          Nagy Vilmos
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                          I so coveted the Vic20 but by the time I could afford one the C64 was out and I thought that was kaka.


                          Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                          • D Dalek Dave

                            Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

                            ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                            DaveyM69
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                            The first I ever used was at school. We had a few BBC micros with good ol' cassette machines for storage, and one that I can't remember the name of that actually had a 5 1/4" floppy drive! The science lab had a ZX spectrum but they only used it for playing games on so I never really got interested in that. The first I owned was a third hand Apricot with dual floppies. Boy did I make that thing work hard! Those were the days :thumbsup:

                            Dave
                            BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
                            Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
                            Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)

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                            • F Flynn Arrowstarr Regular Schmoe

                              First computer I ever used was a Commodore Vic-20. First I ever owned was a Commodore 64. :) From there, I bought an Amiga 500. I had that for a long time then sold it after software became nigh impossible to find and got a generic 286 system. I miss my Amiga *sigh*. Flynn

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                              DaveyM69
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                              I think my brother still has his old 500 somewhere. He had the RAM upgraded to 1MB and it stopped playing some of his games, and if I remember the Workbench went a bit wierd, so it didn't get much use after that.

                              Dave
                              BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
                              Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
                              Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)

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                              • D Dalek Dave

                                Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

                                ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                                leppie
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                                Not my first one, but the one my dad got for his business (he never use it though, someone else did). It was an IBM 8086, 128k RAM, and had 2 floppy drives and no hard drive. The screen was green, monochrome, not even CGA. The keyboard was made from what I presume to be cast iron or lead. And wait for it, it came with IBM DOS 1.10. And on that PC, at the tender age of 6 or 7 I wrote my first GOTO :) And then the keyboard broke, and I got banned from using it :(

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                                • D Dalek Dave

                                  Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

                                  ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                                  Mac 7100/80AV I went from selling colored pencils at the art shop to doing audio/graphics production work in Boston. One day I was eating cold beans out of the tin the next I was at a ritzy juice bar in Harvard Square drinking wheat-grass juice X| with my new (smoking hot) boss!! :)

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                                  • D Dalek Dave

                                    Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

                                    ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                                    MidwestLimey
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                                    Atari 800XL on which I learned to program basic, it all started there! Amiga 500 Amiga 1200 And then a boring 486SX PC with an astounding 4Mb of memory.

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                                    • D Dalek Dave

                                      Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

                                      ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                                      Ray Cassick
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                                      My first was a ZX81 that I built from a kit. ZX81 Vic20 Radio shack COCO Radio shack XT model Self-built 286 Gateway 386SX Self-built 486 Self Built P75 Self-built PII HP-Vectra dual PIII Self-built Dual Xeon (8 cores) Self-build Dual P4 Man, I have owned a ton over the years.


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                                      • D Dalek Dave

                                        Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

                                        ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                                        realJSOP
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                                        Atari 400.

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                                        • D Dalek Dave

                                          Here is a suggestion list[^] The First I used was a Teletype Terminal connected to a 360 and only had paper out put, no screen. Then a ZX80 Then a 380z The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K I loved the PET and the Amiga. Ah the nostalgia!

                                          ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                                          Dr Walt Fair PE
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                                          The first I used was an IBM 1620 in 1967-68, with punch cards. I later got to use the console typewriter and tweak the sense switches. Programming was done in assembly, since it didn't have enough space to actually load a compiler of any sort.

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