Your First Computer...
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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.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Developer, Author (Guardians of Xen)
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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)
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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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I so coveted the Vic20 but by the time I could afford one the C64 was out and I thought that was kaka.
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The first one I bought was a Vic20 (chosen because the data drive record volume didn't change every time you wanted to listen to Boy George). First I programmed on was an IBM 1130 (then a series of BCLs, LogAbax, Apples, and PC lookalikes)
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Apple II Plus. 1983; I think it cost me $1400 with everything. I sold it a year later minus the printer for $1250. Bought a 1979 Honda Civic CVCC. I don't know the first one I "used"; it was something at GE. A PDP-11 was in there somewhere. The first one I programmed where I knew what I was doing was an Apple II.
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I believe it was an Amiga 400, that's the first thing that comes to mind anyway!
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you probably meant either the Amiga 500 or the Amiga 4000 my 2nd and 3rd machines were Amiga 1000 & Amiga 2000 the first was a variation of a Smoke Signal Broadcasting 6809 based system - 5.25" 360K floppy, 32Kb of RAM, clock rate I believe was 4MHz - $4000 :omg:
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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
VAX PDP 4e... ABC80 -- a swedish computer, built around Z80 Osborne 1 and Executive -- no needs for any weightlifting to stay in shape :-D
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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
BBC Master Compact, then various Acorn Archimedeseses and a Risc PC before defecting to the dark side. Loved the Compact apart from the crappy green screen whose lines were far enough apart to be clearly visible!
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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
TRS-80 From Radio Shack, complete with cassette drive + 2 joysticks and 16k of memory. Got it when I was like 8 yrs old. Wrote my first code on it (BASIC). Still got it in my closet. Anyone want to buy it? :cool:
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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
1984: PDP 11/23 1985: Some type of IBM mainframe (don't remember the model) 1986: PDP 11/44 1987: VAX 750, IBM PC (4.77MHz) 1988-1994: VAX minicomputers (4000 series), Rainbow (from DEC), IBM PC/XT (with 10MB hard drive), IBM PC/AT, AST (80286), Gateway 2000 laptop (with a processor equivalent to 80286), AST (80386), Compaq 1994 and later: Don't remember model numbers: Cray, nCube and some other multi-CPU machines to do parallel processing, Sun, Sun Workstation, PVM on Sun Workstations to do parallel processing, PC's with Intel CPU's such as Dell, Gateway, AT&T, and some no-name brand machines.
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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 computer I wrote a real program on was a PDP11 and the first computer I owned was a C64. The C64 was excellent; all those accessories you could get!! I've not been as excited about a computer until I recently bought an Acer Aspire! :cool:
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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
Nobody has mentioned my first "owned" computer... A Radio Shack Color Computer. This had a 6809 based microprocessor running at a whopping 750kHz. With certain "POKE" values (found in RAINBOW Magazine you could double that!!). You could get memory of either 4K or 16K (with additional 16K ROM in both version). In later years I was able to upgrade to 64K. God, I loved that thing! Even its crappy chicklet style keyboard...
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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 machine was "Meritum", Polish TRS-80 clone with 16K RAM (upgraded later using soldering gun to 48K). In mid 80s, behind Iron Curtain intellectual property of "rotten West" wasn't an issue :-) Second was MSX 48KB (made by Philips). In 1991 i bought PC/AT clone with 1MB and floppies 5,25" and 3,5", and added 40MB ATA HDD 3 months later.
-- Jarek Andrzejewski
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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
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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
Timex Sinclair which had 2k Ram with a 16k Memory "upgrade" Cartridge, a Tape Recorder to save/load data, a TV for a monitor... I was 10 Years old.. I haven't stopped programming since (27 years and counting) I think I can write "Hello World" in a zillion different languages now :) Maybe I would have been better off with a simple pencil and paper, wrote Hello World on it and have been done with it :) LOL
Know way too many languages... master of none!
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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
Technically, My first was my dad's ZX80, but I never did much with it. The first computer I bought myself was back in '02. A dell inspiron tower with peripherals running Win98, 1024x monitor, office printer, and a copy of XP... for $40 at a library auction. 10 hours later and a copy of visual studio, and I was a happy teen.
Carpe Diem la Iesous, Aaron, ComposerDude
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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 compture I owned was an Aquarius. More of a video game system, but it came with a manual that included a bunch of BASIC programs that would make a little running man on the screen and things of that nature. That's what got me interested in programming. http://oldcomputers.net/aquarius.html[^]
Mark
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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
Well my real 1st was a C64, but I have fond memories of the Philips gaming console I got right before that, when I was 9 or 10: I bought a cartridge which allowed to program it in pseudo-assembler. It was my very first go at programming, and from then on the road was chosen! The BEST computer I ever had was an Amiga 3000. I got the top model and upgraded it further, and it was a monster of a machine for the time it came out. I owned (and still own in part) almost all of the Amiga models, and that was by far the greatest. Nostalgia indeed!!! :)
2+2=5 for very large amounts of 2 (always loved that one hehe!)