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I challenge you...
Thu, February 28, 2008 - 10:10 AM
I *know* at least one of my friends can even beat me with this particular graph...
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Thu, February 28, 2008 - 1:02 PM
You wouldn't be referring to me, now would you???
Um... By 1984, I had owned three computers.
1 & 2. Two Timex Synclair ZX81's (Dirt cheap, my first computer. An absolutely horrible computer; the second one was a 'Lee's loves computers, here's another) 3. a TRS-80 Color Computer, massively modded and upgraded. (Upgraded and hacked roms, RAM upgraded way beyond manufacturer spec, modded case, several board level hardware mods including an internal speaker, an added NMI button, a hardware level RAM write protect, a homebrew hardware serial port, a kit/homebrew disk drive controller using a set of hand down floppy drives) I was something of the hacker before they all forgot how to spell :) |
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Thu, February 28, 2008 - 1:24 PM
1978 - Apple II: 512-KB RAM (fuck yea!), 9-inch monochrome monitor, & 5-1/4" external floppy with ribbon cable
My first computer system that I owned... <sigh>
Yep. I still have it. It still works and boots to this day as long as I keep the dust bunnies at bay. I like to take it out and play that cool game where you shoot the parachuters down and they go <splat> on the ground... Does pong count? Had one of those in 1977 (or somewhen) hooked to a 1968 Sony B&W TV. Oh... Also did paper tape and punch card programming on those lovely old white and beige IBM mainframes in the early 70's. Whew! I'm feeling very dated all of a sudden! -^.^- --Zen |
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Thu, February 28, 2008 - 2:46 PM
Not a Winner, but Placing in the Finsihing Results Perhaps...
1978 - learned programming (really learned it) on a TI-58 programmable calculator. Essentially a base-10 assembly language. Followed by porting a mass quantity of lab analysis programs from TI-58 into HP-64 RPN language. For grins learned Basic on a PDP-8 in a class.
1979 - built LSI-11/64's for Oregon State University's School of Oceanography, then self-taught Pascal & Macro-11 assembler in 1st programming job, porting FFT program from Fortran into Pascal & adding a bunch of complex statistical analysis programs. 1980 - learned M6800 assembler to write handlers for an acoustic navigational system (pre-fast satellite fixes) and integrated them with LSI-11 controller consoles. Wrote a data collection and time series analysis package for Marine Geology professors. 1982 - first personal computer, a Timex-Sinclair 1000 (same as Lee's). wrote my own version of the Game of Life and a smart-sprite attempt at dumb, small & fast experiement. My employer at the time, an oil company, took away my access to their mainframe compilers about that time too. Told me i was there to find oil & gas, not to program. I took over administering their geophysical workstations though. I didn't get another computer for the house until i brought a Mac II home from work.Brought a string of Macintoshes from work to home as they were spun out. Got on the Internet via my work's T3 line through an ISDN connection to work in 1991. Actually bought my first serious computer for home in 1997, a Starmax 6000 (MacOS 8.1, 4400 motherboard, gen 1 PPC). i got my 1st home PC when i started work at Microsoft. so through the late 70's, 80's and the early 90's I just used my employers' machines. |
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Thu, February 28, 2008 - 5:58 PM
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