Your First Computer...
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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!)
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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
Amstrad 6128 with Monochrome Display. Locomotive Basic and CP/M. Old good days.
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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 I programmed was an RM 380z link to 380z on wikipedia First I owned was a zx81 http://oldcomputers.net/zx81.html[^] then Jupiter Ace http://oldcomputers.net/jupiter-ace.html[^] followed by Amstrad CPC464 Atari ST512FM 486 PC, then PCs 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
First computer I used was a DEC PDP-10 programmed by punched cards, later with teletype. Then a PDP-8E which had 8K of memory, I was ecstatic when I upgraded it to 12K. First computer I owned was a Cromemco Z-80 with 64K of memory and 8" floppy disks (and at work I was still using my 12K 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
You guys are making me feel old! Actually, the Vic 20 and Commodore 64 were definitely my generation, but I was in the enemy camp: Atari 400! After that, an Atari 800. I actually learned to program on the 400. In addition to all my game cartridges, I had a BASIC cartridge that I found to be the most fun of all. Still reaping the benefits of that... Incidentally, I'm 41 now. I couldn't afford a new sports car for my mid-life crisis, so tracked down an Atari 400 on eBay instead. It's now displayed proudly in my office, along with "Centipede", "Dig Dug", "Star Raiders" (great one), and, of course "BASIC". How cool is that! :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
First computer I used - Control Data 3200 - in college - FORTRAN programming class. First computer I owned - Xerox CP/M computer with an 8080 (I think) installed so you could switch between CP/M and DOS. It had an 8-inch floppy disk drive (320KB I think) and a 10MB hard drive in an external case. Used it to write documents using WordStar and to dial into bulletin boards (ah ... Fidonet).
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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
A Sinclair ZX81 that I built from kit (It was about £20 cheaper) - I later upgraded it with a "proper" keyboard, again a kit, and upgraded the memory to 16Kb. I still have a ZX81 I bought at a car boot sale for £1! I later moved on to Spectrum, PCW8512, Amstrad PPC640 (twin floppy), then various Dell machines, and my current one is home built
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Timex Sinclair 1000 (ZX81) – Started programming on this, just realized I still got it Commodore 64 – Loved machine language, yes I said it. Amiga 500 – Still got it somewhere Boring PC
modified on Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:27 PM
HERE HERE on the Timex Sinclair. Also my first computer. Loved those little guys. And you could pick them up all day long for $50 (used) Note that I assume when the OP asked about your first computer - he meant the first computer you owned. I was accessing time share mainframes for school and work years before the first computer I owned at home. After the Timex I moved on the the original IBM PC. 8088 processor. 10MB hard drive. 640K RAM. Damn....that was da bomb baby! (paid about $4000 for it -- OUCH)
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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
Mine was a Timex Sinclair, it even had that big ugly brick for the extra 16k.
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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 TI-99/4A. A whopping 16 KB of RAM Hi-speed tape drive Black and chrome - very cool. 16 brilliant colors I wrote my own versions of Go, Hangman (with a realistic drawn hang-dude), Yahtzee (sp?) and a personal accounting program. I loved it. I still miss it. I still have the "Beginners Basic" manual on a shelf in my office. And it never, not once, not ever............ crashed. Hear that Ballmer and Gates? NEVER crashed. :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
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I had a TI-99/4A. A whopping 16 KB of RAM Hi-speed tape drive Black and chrome - very cool. 16 brilliant colors I wrote my own versions of Go, Hangman (with a realistic drawn hang-dude), Yahtzee (sp?) and a personal accounting program. I loved it. I still miss it. I still have the "Beginners Basic" manual on a shelf in my office. And it never, not once, not ever............ crashed. Hear that Ballmer and Gates? NEVER crashed. :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
Heathkit ET-3400 Microprocessor Trainer. http://www.vintage-computer.com/heathkit3400.shtml[^] It had a Motorola chip, the 6800, with 256 bytes of RAM. I later got the add-on that had more memory and a Cassette Deck interface for saving programs.
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Ah the voice of youth, an Amiga as your first. By the Holy Hamsters that makes me feel old!
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
Dalek Dave wrote:
By the Holy Hamsters that makes me feel old!
I know the feeling :) Problem is.. what "first" is the interesting one. Back when I got into computers, they weren't something individuals owned. First computer I personally owned: An Amiga 1000. Still got it. And the ROM Kernel manuals too, including the one with the wrong cover. I held off and bought this one because it had multitasking. Through it, I learned why MMUs are important. :D
patbob
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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
The first computer I remeber using was an Apple2. The first computer I bought was an HP in 1995. It came with windows 95 on it. I didn't really use it until someone bought me Star Craft a few years later. Then I used it all the time. No I don't even get to play games anymore. It's all work, work, work.