Wow! DVI ready....
I remember one of my buddy's had one back in 1982 or so. My, my. How times have changed...
First computer I ever owned. I even learned some programming for it. I later had a 128. I didn't even own a PC until 1998 or laptop until 2001.
> First computer I ever owned. I even learned some programming for it. I later had a 128. I didn't even own a PC until 1998 or laptop until 2001.
Same here. I had a Commie 64....and when the Commies came out in color ansi I had the very first!! I remember I'd turn on the PC then go hop in the shower and get cleaned up, and by the time I was done, the PC was ready to go. Then I'd dial in so it could connect and go make something to eat, and by the time I got back, I'd finally be connected. 🙂
I believe that was...1991??? Egads!!! I am old!! :-S
I used mine all through getting my history degree.. wrote many papers on that unit using an old tv for a monitor and a dot matrix printer.. we had some great drinking games to the Scottish "Highlander" Games.. funny that this hit the news, my wife and I were just talking about that game a few weeks ago. there is a whole site of C64 software that is still available.
I have a power adapter for the 64 if anybody needs one!
My first computer was a laser 128 apple clone!
I spent many hours on that "basic" thing....
> I used mine all through getting my history degree.. wrote many papers on that unit using an old tv for a monitor and a dot matrix printer.. we had some great drinking games to the Scottish "Highlander" Games.. funny that this hit the news, my wife and I were just talking about that game a few weeks ago. there is a whole site of C64 software that is still available.
Classic Internet....
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Never thought you'd see the day, did you?;-)
A machine like this one ran Carlson before it was translated.
That's an Apple IIc. I know, because I owned one. 🙂
http://oldcomputers.net/appleiic.html
Also had one of these:
http://oldcomputers.net/appleiigs.html
Of course, before all that, there was the Atari 400, the first "computer" I ever hacked.
http://oldcomputers.net/atari400.html
Ah yes, those were the days...
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The very first on I used was the Olivetti P652. It used magnetic cards about the same size as punch cards.
Next was the HP 9851A. It used Proprietary Cassette Tapes.
Then the Old WANG 700 with regular Cassette Tapes.
Then the WANG 2200 MVP 8" floppy drive
Then the HP 86A 5-1/4" dual floppy drive (about here I got the Commodore)
I finally used a PC in 1987.
Must be hangin' out with a bunch o' kids. Thinking back to the big room with raised floor and complete air handling/conditioning system where you handed a bundle of punch cards through a window, then went home until the next day. Came back hoping they had time to stick your cards in "the computer". Usually found out that it went about six cards and then went haywire because something "did not compute".
My first government computer was the Olivetti 101 and was big and cumbersome and took magnetic cards, with 120 program steps.
Keith
Yeah Keith, me too, and it almost took 2 men and a boy to pack it around. Was something to watch it think with the red and blue lights blinking.
The first company I worked for full-time in 1984 had a Northstar Horizon. I think they paid 10 or 15 thousand for it. It ran Sierra Cybernetics Cogo (a basic program) and a word processor which I'll think of the name in a little while.
The company later bought a Northstar Advantage which ran CP/M for an operating system.
I remember CP/M and those little "portable" computers with the 3" screen that used it. Did my second bout of programming on one of those when I took a flowcharting and structure class for program development back in 1984.
I started out by turning in card decks, too.
Then about 1972 I worked for the school's meteorology department and sometimes got to use a little computer all to myself - an early Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-11. You were the boot ROM; to start the machine you had to enter in (by hand on toggle switches) the octal code for the first 15 instructions. That told the computer how to read paper tape, so you could bootstrap it from there.
Anyone use one of theses beasts?
HP-85
I have one that was given to me a few years ago, but have never used it. I do have an 86B that I still use every once in awhile, with both the 3½" and 5¼" drives hooked up to it.
Volume C was and still is the best Cogo program ever written with all the features that it has. The section breakdown, double and single proportion capabilities are something that most systems now don't have. Survey 4.0 is the only one I am familiar with that has the section breakdown feature, but no proportion capabilities.
