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Commodore vic 20
John
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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
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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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
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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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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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
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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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
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
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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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
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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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
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) -
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
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) -
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
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 :(
xacc.ide
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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
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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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
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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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
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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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
Atari 400.
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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
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.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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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 :(
xacc.ide
IronScheme - 1.0 beta 4 - out now!
((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))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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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)I had two A500's -- the original system and the A500+ (sold the original to get the A500+). Then I bought a sidecar expansion with 3 mb of RAM. Never did get the hard drive or the 486 bridge card for it though. :( Used to install some of the games into a RAM disk to mimic a very tiny hard drive. Best way to play games like Pool of Radiance and Wizardry 6 without needing to swap disks all the time. Also had some great graphics and rendering software for it. And, AMOS Basic was a blast. :-\ Flynn
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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 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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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
Altair 8800 ZX80 ZX81 Jupiter Ace Memotech MTX512 (still got this one) Sinclair QL (still got this one) Atari ST and then I encountered the Dark Side (PCs), and it's been downhill ever since.
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