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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #20 on: August 10, 2005, 04:04:15 am »
 When SFC 1 came out. I bought one just to play that game.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #21 on: August 10, 2005, 04:36:26 am »
The first one I can remember is the Xerox 860 that I used when I joined the Navy in 1984.  We may have had a Comodore or something like that but if so I don't remember. 

Anyway 860 linky - http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=488

We really liked these things because you could be the crap out of them, and we did, and they would still work. 
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #22 on: August 10, 2005, 05:31:05 am »
10th grade, 1970, audio modem connection to the school system's IBM mainframe, read punch tape, and for us old school military, the round key, 2" stroke keyboard.

First home computer was an Atari 800, which still works, with a Happy drive (actually, 2 of them), so we can play M.U.L.E. whenever we want....plus the odd trip to Alternate Reality, the Dungeon.

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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #23 on: August 10, 2005, 07:54:44 am »
Quote from: std::toasty0 on August 09, 2005, 08:39:24 pm

Dang, you IS old.



Quote from: E_Look on August 09, 2005, 08:44:32 pm
That's old??  Okay... you're right, that's old!  ;D


 :rofl:

I'm not old yet but I'm getting there.   ;D

The funny thing is that people think I'm still a teen.  A couple of years ago I contracted a company to do some work on my roof.  When I went out one morning to see how they were coming along, the crew boss asked me if my parents were home.  His mouth hit the roof and the stuttering began when I told him that I owned the home.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #24 on: August 10, 2005, 10:09:00 am »
Quote from: Ravok on August 10, 2005, 04:04:15 am
When SFC 1 came out. I bought one just to play that game.

You serious??
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #25 on: August 10, 2005, 10:14:13 am »
Quote from: E_Look on August 09, 2005, 08:44:32 pm
That's old??  Okay... you're right, that's old!  ;D

If you promise not to laugh I'll tell you my first computer. A PET(hole punch card kit), and then after that a Commodore64.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #26 on: August 10, 2005, 01:03:40 pm »
Quote from: E_Look on August 10, 2005, 10:09:00 am
Quote from: Ravok on August 10, 2005, 04:04:15 am
When SFC 1 came out. I bought one just to play that game.

You serious??

 Absolutely!!  :) I had no use for one. and no desire to own one prior to that.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #27 on: August 10, 2005, 03:07:31 pm »
Quote from: std::toasty0 on August 10, 2005, 10:14:13 am
Quote from: E_Look on August 09, 2005, 08:44:32 pm
That's old??  Okay... you're right, that's old!  ;D

If you promise not to laugh I'll tell you my first computer. A PET(hole punch card kit), and then after that a Commodore64.

Oh I used those but not until after I started using the Digital/TRS80's.  They were kind of fun to play with.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #28 on: August 10, 2005, 04:50:37 pm »
Let's see, I was born in 87.  I've had a computer as far as I can remember.  I vaguely recall updating it to Windows (3.0 or something like that).  Didn't get another computer until the i-Mac came out and, not long after, another Computer that ran on Windows 98 SE.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #29 on: August 10, 2005, 08:08:11 pm »
My first computer was steam powered!
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #30 on: August 10, 2005, 09:44:54 pm »
Xerox 860, and an Apple II at work, (Both were THE computer at the time, supposedly.)   First home computer?  A Commodore +4.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #31 on: August 10, 2005, 09:50:04 pm »
Quote from: Punisher on August 10, 2005, 08:08:11 pm
My first computer was steam powered!

Your lucky, mine was hamster-powered :P
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #32 on: August 10, 2005, 09:55:12 pm »
Wow they had mice back then!
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #33 on: August 10, 2005, 10:12:28 pm »
Our mainframe at work is so old some of the lines of code refer to an abacus..

"If redbead=left"

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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #34 on: August 10, 2005, 10:18:39 pm »
My first keyboard was heirogliphs.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #35 on: August 10, 2005, 11:28:12 pm »
Quote from: Punisher on August 10, 2005, 08:08:11 pm
My first computer was steam powered!

That's only because you kept pissing on the heat sink.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #36 on: August 10, 2005, 11:34:47 pm »
Quote from: Punisher on August 10, 2005, 08:08:11 pm
My first computer was steam powered!

 Ahhh yes the old Eli Whitney 01 . You had to like the look of that baby!!

 Hand hammered riveted steel case, and the 2 man boiler it took to run it.

 and those 3ft floppy disks drives and 1 gig of memory, It was way ahead of its time.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #37 on: August 11, 2005, 05:37:09 am »
Started basic programming on a Commodore Vic 20 on display in Woolco in 1986.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #38 on: August 11, 2005, 09:10:32 am »
Late 70's - Atari 400 followed a year later with an Atari 800. (both are now gathering dust in the attic)

1982/3 - First Mainframe - Digital PDP11 (upgraded a couple years later to a VAX/VMS)

Same approximate timeframe I got my first "real" home pc. A 286DX (?) but I don't remember who made it. It's probably also in the attic with the Ataris.
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Re: when did you start using computers
« Reply #39 on: August 11, 2005, 10:30:08 am »
Quote from: GarrethMacLeod on August 11, 2005, 09:10:32 am
Late 70's - Atari 400 followed a year later with an Atari 800. (both are now gathering dust in the attic)

1982/3 - First Mainframe - Digital PDP11 (upgraded a couple years later to a VAX/VMS)

Same approximate timeframe I got my first "real" home pc. A 286DX (?) but I don't remember who made it. It's probably also in the attic with the Ataris.

The VAX/VMS was the system I used, did you ever play around with those disk packs that you set into drive about the size of a dishwashing machine?  Brings back a lot of memories.

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