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    Dalek Dave
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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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      I believe it was an Amiga 400, that's the first thing that comes to mind anyway!

      He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man

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        I believe it was an Amiga 400, that's the first thing that comes to mind anyway!

        He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man

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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

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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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          Dan_Martin
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          I had a Commodore 64 which I had for many, many years of my childhood and learnt to program on. Then I had a succession of PCs that I found less and less endearing in turn.

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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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            Pierre Leclercq
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            Something like this: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/06/pong_kit.html[^]

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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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              Nemanja Trifunovic
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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 :)

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                I had a Commodore 64 which I had for many, many years of my childhood and learnt to program on. Then I had a succession of PCs that I found less and less endearing in turn.

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                Dalek Dave
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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

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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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                  Dave Parker
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                  C64 Amiga 500+ Amiga 1200 Boring 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

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                    Chris Losinger
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                    first i used was a PET first i owned was a C64 first i bought with my own money was a no-name PC

                    image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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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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                      John M Drescher
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                      Commodore vic 20

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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 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

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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!

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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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                            S100 crate, Z80A cpu.

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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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                              Flynn Arrowstarr Regular Schmoe
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                              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

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                                Nagy Vilmos
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                                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

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                                  Nagy Vilmos
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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.


                                  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

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                                    DaveyM69
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                                    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)
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                                      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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                                      DaveyM69
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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)

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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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                                        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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                                          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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                                          Joe Simes
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                                          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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