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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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        Dave Parker
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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

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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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                  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
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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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                                Joe Simes
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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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                                    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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                                      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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                                        Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

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                                        • L leppie

                                          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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                                          Pierre Leclercq
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                                          leppie wrote:

                                          And then the keyboard broke, and I got banned from using it

                                          And you had nothing to do with it? :)

                                          You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

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