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2007-05-03 , 22:58
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Back then Sinclair rocked my world @ 3.25 MHz.
 
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2007-05-03 , 23:04
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Your right TEXRAT, I never looked at it like that but I came into the tech world kind of late, I tip my hat to you..
 
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2007-05-03 , 23:11
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oh man, everybody is soo young! my first computer was :

 
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2007-05-03 , 23:29
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LOL your right
 
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2007-05-04 , 00:03
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I cut my programming teeth in the late 1970s with the HP-67 card programmable calculator, moving on to port civil engineering FORTRAN programs to the HP-41C. You can see, I always had a thing for handhelds.

Unfortunately, magnetic card storage was kind of limiting, so I reluctantly moved up to "big iron" - the HP-85 desktop with its data cassette storage and a whopping 16KB of RAM (expandable to 32KB). Whee! Then came the IBM PC. None of the available FORTRAN compilers included date or time library functions, so I taught myself Assembler and wrote my own. There was something exhilirating about getting that close to the innards. Since then, life hasn't been the same. A geek was born...
 
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2007-05-04 , 04:50
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internet!?! how about the days of dial-up BBS boards - jezz i racked up my parents phone bills with my atari 1200xl and the 1030 modem...good times, good times!

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers...range-main.htm




you know-it just hit me as i was posting this - does anyone know if you can run linux on the old ataris? that might be fun....

-matt
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2007-05-04 , 07:34
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Originally Posted by brendan View Post
the first computer i ever used, in second grade, was this boat anchor...

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?c=102&st=1

how far we have come...
That is the one I started with, too
 
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2007-05-04 , 08:18
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I started out with a Timex-Sinclair 1000 as well.
But then I got an "upgrade" in the form of a Commodore Vic-20 and my grandmother made the mistake of buying me the 300 -baud modem cart for it...ah, Compuserve and big phone bills!
 
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None of you guys started on this one?
A Laser 500 from VTech


It wasn't even mine. (my very first PC was the C= 64)
 
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2007-05-04 , 13:50
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Yeah, I remmeber getting kicked off of Compuserve for going beyond my alloted minutes on a 300 baud modem... lol.

Oh, and I didn't mean to be dismissive of ya Sadavyk. Heck, the tablets are the next frontier, so at least you were here for that, right?
 
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