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Offline Mackie

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when did you start using computers
« on: August 09, 2005, 03:33:46 pm »
again out of pure curiosity :P

for me it was in either 88 or 89 , i was 4-5 years old (the only hobby i started before computers was Judo, started exactly when i was 4 years old, practiced til 17) and my first computers were a C64 and a Sinclair spectrum... yeah they were outdated even at that point of time, it took about a year or two before i moved to 386 computers but as you might of have imagined it took a me a while to learn how to use them since i was so young :D (born 84) .
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2005, 03:35:26 pm »
About 1981...

and here it is..

http://oldcomputers.net/atari400.html
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2005, 03:38:19 pm »
Quote from: Dracho on August 09, 2005, 03:35:26 pm
About 1981...

and here it is..

http://oldcomputers.net/atari400.html


too bad they dont make computers that pretty/compact anymore :/
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2005, 03:45:48 pm »
93 w/ a packard bell bought from jc penny....
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2005, 04:21:26 pm »
jc penny.... hm. heard the name. aint that sort of a chain-store company?

as for me starting with old style computers you can blame my dad for that, he wanted me to start from the, well, start. the beginning, i quess i should thank him for that since i now know a sh*tload about way-old computers and their games ;p
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2005, 04:51:48 pm »
Quote from: Dracho on August 09, 2005, 03:35:26 pm
About 1981...

and here it is..

http://oldcomputers.net/atari400.html


I still have my Atari 800 somewhere...
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2005, 05:06:39 pm »
1978.  Heathkit H11

Link to info on the computer

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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2005, 05:25:55 pm »
1981, HP 41CV
1985, HP 41CX

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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2005, 05:37:03 pm »
1986.

Learned basic Basic programming in HS on a Mac. Later that year freshman semester at NJIT we had to learn Fortran 77 and got to rent an 8086 for 4 years.

Ah, the memories of DOS 3, XYWrite word processor, and TK!Solver. Can't recall how I ever had the patience to wait for that beast to boot up from a 5.25 floppy.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2005, 05:59:17 pm »
High school early '70s; IBM 1130, a card reading mainframe type beast.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2005, 06:01:35 pm »
Quote from: NJAntman on August 09, 2005, 05:37:03 pm
Learned basic Basic programming in HS on a Mac.

You had Mac's?!?  We only had TRaSh-80's  :-[ :P
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2005, 06:08:56 pm »
My mother brought home an Apple IIe and hooked it up to the family TV set.  I don't remember the year all I know is that it had a tape player and large black floppies.  Ohh and we even had a telephone modem!  The kind that had a cradle.  My mom was a programer for the local community colage.

Maybe that was early 80s?  I was 11 or 12?  :-\ :P
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2005, 06:22:25 pm »
As if I have ever used one.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2005, 07:34:55 pm »
Apple IIe in the late 80's. We had ONE in the whole school- because one of my elementary school teachers went out and bought it with her own money. My parents got one for me later on that year with a lot of educational games.

My first real 'modern' comp was next- a Packard Bell in about 94. My first computer games?

Silent Service II and Red Storm Rising ;D
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2005, 07:57:40 pm »
'83 on a Digital Mainframe and TRS 80's.  Simple times.   ;D
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #15 on: August 09, 2005, 08:39:24 pm »
Quote from: Javora on August 09, 2005, 07:57:40 pm
'83 on a Digital Mainframe and TRS 80's.  Simple times.   ;D


Dang, you IS old.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #16 on: August 09, 2005, 08:44:32 pm »
That's old??  Okay... you're right, that's old!  ;D
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #17 on: August 09, 2005, 09:04:20 pm »
First computer in home.  Mac Classic 1990.

Prior to that i'd used earlier macs (and Apple IIs) at friends and at parents work.

First bought computer.  Gateway 500mhz midsummer 99
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #18 on: August 09, 2005, 09:26:08 pm »
Oh, first computer bought?  Leading Edge Model D2, a clone of the 80286 (CPU by Daewoo!); came with a 5¼" floppy drive, a whopping 30 Mb MFM HD, an amber monochrome (tiny) monitor, AND NO MATH COPROCESSOR!!  I had to buy it a couple of months later.  But oh, it came with this superb feeling clicky keyboard.  My kid is still using the keyboard and won't give it up!
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #19 on: August 09, 2005, 09:30:35 pm »
Back in the very early 80's, my school bought a Bell & Howell computer...  Bell & Howell mostly made 16mm film projectors, but apparently at the point they had started either licencing (or ripping off ;) ) the original Apple II.  About the same time, my aunt had a TRS-80, and I think shortly after that she bought us a TI-99/4A, if anybody remembers that glorified game machine.  :D  I did actually figure out how to program BASIC on the TI-99, but quickly gave up on it when I realized that our only tape recorder was incompatible to serve as a storage drive...  :(  The first computer I personally bought was an Apple IIe (used) in 1989...  $600, and I promptly blew nearly another $400 on the color monitor, because I was damned if I was going to look at that old green phosphor monitor ever again after having to deal with it all through high school...  In college I mostly worked on Macs (after giving up Computer Science as a major, where I worked with PC Jr.'s for BASIC and something called an Alpha Micro for PASCAL, COBOL, FORTRAN, etc.), and probably would have bought one at some point if all the cool games hadn't been on PC.  ;)  My first PC was purchased late in 1998, and I've had 7 more since (of which I still own 4  ;D ).
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