[confuzius]

Hey- just been going through the memory banks here and found my first computer- atari 800 xl. I learned a bit of Atari Basic to code on it, but a lack of memory (64 Kb RAM, 24 Kb ROM kind of got in the way.

The machine did have a plug in tape recorder drive that wrote to standard audio tapes, but it was all dodgy at best- you had a very dicey chance of anything being useful again later. And the bonus with using audio tapes was that anyone could come and use you program files to record music over!

http://www.old-compu...mputer.asp?c=27

What systems did you guys have to start out?

This post has been edited by confuzius: 10 March 2008 - 04:26 AM

[no2pencil]

My 1st machine was an Acer Aspire, it was an 8088 with 2 five & quarter floppy drives, no hard drive & no modem. I learned DOS 3.3 on it, which I am great-full for, because being used to the command line interface it was an easy move to Linux/Unix.

Welcome to Dream In Code!

[thehat]

Is the Spectrum 48 allowed?

If not my first PC was a home build SX33 with a 200MB hard drive and 2MB RAM, and in the first day I learned as much DOS as was needed to make Syndicate run on it!

[Nykc]

Commodore 64. My grandpa had an Apple II but I was very young and only played games on it.

[WolfCoder]

I programmed on a crappy old Compaq notebook in Micro$oft's QBasic when I was 12 from there on out I became a video game programmer by hobby somehow.

[Amadeus]

http://www.vintage-c...m/pet8032.shtml

[WolfCoder]

Hehe, I remember reading up on how to pet your Commodore a long time ago. It was changing where the graphics and memory were stored, which allowed me more room for something... I forgot but it made more sense than the default configuration.

This post has been edited by WolfCoder: 10 March 2008 - 09:49 AM

[red_4900]

wow. wolfcoder changed his avatar. how should I say this...it's kawaii~!!

[supersloth]

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[biggles2008]

Firstly Welcome

Secondly i cant remember what mine was i was only young a compaq (poor computer) i not saying compaqs are bad just that comp .

My second was i crappy one and when i say crap i mean one of the worst machines everrrr for example: literally took 15 minutes to be operational after i logged on

but my current computer is a laptop Acer Aspire

[BenignDesign]

*sigh* the memories..... I learned BASIC on an Apple IIe with the monochrome green screen.... and played a lot of Oregon Trail on 5.25" floppies.... *tear*

[P4L]

The first computer that I worked on was an Apple IIe. Of course I mainly played games on it as well. My first computers, yes plural, were the old 286, 386, and 486 machines, and I started programming with QBasic. I had also created a network so to speak before networking became popular. All this was for school between the ages of 14 and 16.

[WolfCoder]

red_4900, on 10 Mar, 2008 - 10:11 AM, said:

wow. wolfcoder changed his avatar. how should I say this...it's kawaii~!!

Thanks

Hehe, yeah it's very kawaii

[fooboo]

thehat, on 10 Mar, 2008 - 02:41 AM, said:

Is the Spectrum 48 allowed?

My first was ZX 81, we eventually upgraded to a 48k. The monitor was greenscale. We still had teh nets back then though. Underneath the desk was a modem with an acoustic coupler attached and we had an account with Prestel. BBS were teh bomb.
We also had an early 3.5" floppy drive, the case of which was literally 3-4 times the size of the computer itself.

My first PC was a 286 8mhz 512k ram, 20mb hdd and with a colour EGA screen ('Catacombs abyss' rocked on this setup). I owned a couple of Wang XTs but I actually got them after the 286.

[thehat]

Man, that's cool. Back then I could just about make mine play a tune, I really only played games on it. Then I bought an adapter for a joystick that caught fire and melted my poor speccy beyond repair.