Your First Computer...
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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 :)
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
Dalek Dave wrote: The first I owned was a ZX Speccy 48K Same here. 48K looked like a lot of memory these days Smile
So did I. But I bought it with 16K and upgraded it almost immediately --- was cheaper than buying a 48K Speccy off-the-shelf.
Norbert
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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 built from a kit. Soldered every board component and wire connection myself. Optical tape reader to alleviate the difficulty of loading programs via front panel switches. Punched my own tapes tediously using a Frieden Flexwriter. Started with 1K of static RAM but upgraded to 48K eventually. Replaced the 8080 processor board with a Cromemco Z80. Replaced the tape reader with Micropolis dual floppy drive. Still up in the attic but I doubt the floppies are good any more.
I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office
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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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Wow, did you ever get the big grey expansion box? hahaha. Heavier than a boat anchor on an air craft carrier.
I never did, though I did want one. Later got a TRS-80 Model 100 Portable, which I guess was the first laptop computer. Still have it around here somewhere. Good computer for its time. Last time I saw a 100 in use was in a bong shop in KCMO about 20 years ago (no, I don't do that stuff anymore). They had the optional cash register hardware for it and it handled sales, inventory, etc.
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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 was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4 (The first 16-bit domestic computer, according to Wikipedia...woo hoo!), upgrading shortly after to the TI-99/4A (Woo hoo!). Turn it on to a nice blank screen, and type away in BASIC if you wanted to see anything, and save to cassette tape! There was also a cartridge slot, but it was discontinued so soon after coming out that cartridges were rare...besides, I played all my games on my Atari, anyway... I spent countless hours on it programing in BASIC, it was the computer that got me into programming...so, I always have a soft spot for it.
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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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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!
The VIC-20 was my first computer too. I still own one and, it may seems strange, I still program for it. Of course I cross compile on the PC, but it is still a lot of fun to make programs stay within 3583 bytes.
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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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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.
I used the Apple II in school (primarily 7th through 10th grades, and the IIGS in 11th and 12th). Never owned one though. I did have a few disks full of little games and such with a few favorite games -- Lady Tut, Droll and some of the Wizardry games. I was able to get most of those for my C=64 as well. :) My brother had the C=Vic20, but he gave it to me when he bought a C=64 in 1984. I bought my own C=64 in 1986, and upgraded it to a C=128 after a few years. The Amiga 500 I bought in 1991. Flynn
_If we can't corrupt the youth of today,
the adults of tomorrow will be no fun...
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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
Intertec Data Systems Superbrain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbrain CP/M and SuperDOS Z80 @ 4Mhz! 64k of ram! Dual 340k floppies! Learned to program on this machine using Leor Zolman's BDS 'C' Compiler! Those were the days! :-D Rick
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A Colecovision Adam computer...it was a computer, game console and printer with TV output. It was the shiznit!
RoboJRR wrote:
Colecovision Adam computer...it was a computer, game console and printer with TV output
I was beginning to wonder if I was the only person that had one of these. It was turned on Christmas morning, and sat there blinking. I started talking to it, and my dad handed me a programming book -- said you have to make it talk back. From there, I went to Apple //c and IIgs, then to the 486-DX100 and other clones.
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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
It seems nobody met the MSX. Well, that was my first, barely remember the stuff I did with it. But I do remember that it was where I wrote my first line of code.
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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
Compaq LTE 486DX4 laptop...to this day the best pointing device ever on a laptop.
Trollslayer wrote:
Meetings - where minutes are taken and hours are lost.
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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 programmed was a TRS-80 Model I. First computer I owned was a TI-99/4A. Learned assembly on that one.
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My first was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4 (The first 16-bit domestic computer, according to Wikipedia...woo hoo!), upgrading shortly after to the TI-99/4A (Woo hoo!). Turn it on to a nice blank screen, and type away in BASIC if you wanted to see anything, and save to cassette tape! There was also a cartridge slot, but it was discontinued so soon after coming out that cartridges were rare...besides, I played all my games on my Atari, anyway... I spent countless hours on it programing in BASIC, it was the computer that got me into programming...so, I always have a soft spot for it.
I owned the TI-99/4A as well. As you say, it was the first 16-bit machine. However, it doesn't seem to garner much respect among the people who collect historic machines. There's a club near me that isn't interested in it at all, and they have more TRS-80's than you can shake a memory stick at.
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I owned the TI-99/4A as well. As you say, it was the first 16-bit machine. However, it doesn't seem to garner much respect among the people who collect historic machines. There's a club near me that isn't interested in it at all, and they have more TRS-80's than you can shake a memory stick at.
It may not have as much respect as other historic machines, but it did have a bit of a following. One other thing I remember is that it also had it's own magazine. I had a subscription, and remember spending hours every weekend typing in the huge programs that were in there. Fond memories...
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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
ZX80 - 1k RAM. Could do a lot with that then. UK101 - Kit built machine in the UK. 6502, 8k RAM, 1k Video memory - still got it after 25+ years! Amstrad CPC 6128 - Z80 with 128k and a 3" floppy built in. Did my final year thesis on that, including write the firmware etc for a couple of standalone processor boards. Actually broke out the expansion port on the back of it to make a Z80 emulator. Computer died after 10 years for want of an elastic band to drive the floppy disk. The old one perished and wouldn't grip :(. Still got it in the hope that I will get round to fixing it one day. Then just PC after PC after PC......
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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
ELF-II like this but without all the "fancy" expansion boards Elf Photo 256 Bytes of memory programmed in machine language (anyone remeber assembler forms?) then a ZX-1000 with 16K expansion memory then a PDP-11/20 (and a room full of peripherals including a card reader) ... PC-XT - dual floppies
Using the latest technology to create tomorrows problems today.
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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 - ferranti sirius p/t io, bit like this one[^] - except I'm sure the one at ICI Research labs in Welwyn GC had its mandatory hi-tech p/t collection devices several feet from the punches. first owned - pdp11/23, dectapes & fanfold p/t - left rack only[^] - note the url where I found the pic
Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur.(Pliny)
