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Old 03-06-2007, 10:27 AM
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What was the very first computer you ever used
OK I start with me. In 1977 I got a Commodore Kim 1 for Christmas. I was in high school at that time. It had to be programmed in assembler via an hexadecimal keyboard. It had 1k of RAM and a 6502 1mhz CPU. It got me hook with computer science.
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Later in 1978 I got my father to buy a Tandy Radio Shack TRS 80 with 16k of RAM, a real keyboard and a real screen. It used BASIC as a programming language. What an improvment over the Kim it was!
http://oldcomputers.net/trs80i.html
I convinced my father to buy this TRS 80 because I told him that I could write a program for his accounting... which I did but took me a little while though. I remember one particular incident when I had spent 3 hours programming and lost everything when my mother unplugged the computer by mistake
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Commodore 64. Played "Amok" all the time
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For me the Commodore 64 in 84' Dam.. that a long time ago.. sheeeee...
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Make that 3 for the Commodore 64.
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