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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!
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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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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.
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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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((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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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 programmed -- the high school's PDP-11. First at home -- Amstrad 512 (or whatever) First of my own -- 486SX clone At my first computer job -- MicroVAX 3600
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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
CDC6600 - Kept behind the closed doors and never touched by mere mortals. One put a card deck in your assigned box and checked back in 24-48 hours to get your output. Usually saying there was a keypunch error in the card deck. EAI4800 - 48K of ferrite core memory that filled a room the size of a two car garage with a teletype style interface. One could sign up for a block of dedicated time, if your project had enough priority. And if I brought donuts and coffee, the operator would actually let me mount a tape or touch the keyboard! Only on second or third shift of course so the management didn't see us subverting the system. PDP-8 - Had to love those paper tapes for storage. Much easier and faster to destroy than a card deck. First "PC" was an Apple II with 8K of memory, serial number in the 800 range. Pure magic! I could actually run a program and see the results on a 13" TV! Of course I couldn't save it until a year later when they hacked a cassette tape storage system. But I did some real engineering work on that Apple. Kid's play today, but very cool back in the day of slide rules and 4 function calculators. I could have done a lot more if the janitor's hadn't kept unplugging it to plug in the vacuum cleaner at night!
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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
Univac 1108 fed by punch cards IBM 360 with 3270 terminal Commodore VIC-20 IBM PC-AT at work Tandy 1000 at home . . .
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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
My first computer before C64 was the one and only completely finnish designed and manufactured computer Telmac TMC-600. http://www.hobbylabs.org/telmac.htm[^] Exactly like in the picture with red background. Few years ago I asked my mother for the chances that they might still have that computer because I didnt take it with me when I first time moved out. Well, no chances :( Edit: Another link in finnish museum which has this computer model: http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/cgi-bin/page.cgi?pkpcode=telmac[^]
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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 grew up very poor; had to wait for a very long time to own a computer. The first one was a Windows 98 machine (2Gig hard disk, with 128 MB RAM). But now, I'm running on spanking good hardware. Seriously. :)
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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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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MidwestLimey wrote:
Atari 800XL on which I learned to program basic, it all started there!
Same here! Went to an IBM PS/2 model 25 from there, though.
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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
I'd forgotten all abour Amiga Basic. I wrote a complete bespoke stock control and accounting package on that (very rough!), no CP or Google back then. Just the documentation that came with it which was pretty good if I remember correctly.
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
Commodore VIC 20 with a huge 3.5K RAM and a data-cassette for storing software on audo tapes. I learned BASIC and assembler on that machine then moved to the C64, then the C128, then finally my first IBM PC clone with 512K RAM (who would ever need more that was almost $600 for that much RAM) and 1 floppy drive and a green screen video. Thought I hit the big time when I finally bought another floppy so I did not have to swap them all the time :) Oh yeah, and when I moved to the IBM PC Clone, I got Microsoft C and Lattice C which both worked off a floppy disk :)
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I'd forgotten all abour Amiga Basic. I wrote a complete bespoke stock control and accounting package on that (very rough!), no CP or Google back then. Just the documentation that came with it which was pretty good if I remember correctly.
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)Amiga Basic was pretty capable. AMOS[^] was more geared toward games, but there were a number of impressive utilities built with it as well, including disk copying utilities and Total Commander-style file explorers. I had pretty much all the versions of AMOS availalble -- the original release, the 3D add-on (not mentioned in the Wikipedia article above), AMOS Professional, and even Easy AMOS, which was geared toward learning programming. I really learned a lot on that system. :) Flynn
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