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YoDude 2007-05-03 22:58
Re: n800 ancestor
 
Back then Sinclair rocked my world @ 3.25 MHz. :D

Sadavyk 2007-05-03 23:04
Re: n800 ancestor
 
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..

ioan 2007-05-03 23:11
Re: n800 ancestor
 
oh man, everybody is soo young! my first computer was :

http://www.shacktech.co.uk/images/abacus.jpg

Sadavyk 2007-05-03 23:29
Re: n800 ancestor
 
LOL your right

jpj 2007-05-04 00:03
Re: n800 ancestor
 
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...

m_sparks 2007-05-04 04:50
Re: n800 ancestor
 
internet!?! :eek: 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!:rolleyes:

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


http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers...200xl-main.jpg

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

mredeker 2007-05-04 07:34
Re: n800 ancestor
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by brendan (Post 47052)
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 :D

iball 2007-05-04 08:18
Re: n800 ancestor
 
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!

anidel 2007-05-04 09:06
Re: n800 ancestor
 
None of you guys started on this one?
A Laser 500 from VTech
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...h_laser500.jpg

It wasn't even mine. (my very first PC was the C= 64)

Texrat 2007-05-04 13:50
Re: n800 ancestor
 
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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