[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

[terry mcintyre]

My first machine was a teletype in the basement of
North Catholic High School, connected to a timesharing
machine - a Honeywell mainframe of some sort - running
FORTRAN and BASIC. That was back in 1971 or
thereabouts. In college, I played with the Digital PDP
10 and 11. 

First computer I owned was a Radio Shack TRS 80, Model
I, with 48K of RAM and a cassette tape mass storage
device. One had to tinker with the volume control of
the $29.95 tape recorder to be able to read data
reliably. That would have been 1978, I think. My
friends had soldered chips to Cromenco motherboards
and so forth, but I'm not patient enough to do all
that fiddly stuff with a soldering iron, so I waited
for 
a plug-n-play system. But I did have a few small
mechanical computing gadgets, lol. Dunno where they've
gotten to. The one I miss most is a slide rule; don't
know if one can purchase slide rules anymore.


--- Ben Beige <dariuscardren at gmail.com> wrote:

> Comador Vic-20, blew it up when I was 5.... the got
> the IBM PS2 model 50
> (12mHz 80286, 1 mb ram, 20 MB hdd) when I was 6
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> On 10/13/05, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Diana A. Clarion wrote:
> > > All this talk of age-showing got me to a little
> reminiscing, part of
> > that
> > > involving the machines I've worked. Just for the
> halibut, I'm wondering
> > > what
> > > was the first machine you folks worked.
> >
> > Heh ...
> >
> > Commodore 64 with BASIC and C64 assembly. I guess
> that would have been
> > early/mid 80s? Seems like another lifetime.
> >
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Terry McIntyre
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