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I taught myself GW-Basic on this Zenith 120[^] back in 1985 while in the Marine Corps.
I still have the book
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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ZX Spectrum 48k[^] 1983 & at home. Mostly stuff from Byte magazine and stuff garnered from the BBC's various publications at the time. I wonder how many times the Spectrum has paid for itself since I started coding for a living, probably the best financial help my Grandma ever gave come to think of it.
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Hooked up to the tele?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Of course. And you could plug headphones into the output jack used for the tape recorder to listen to glorious 1-channel mono sound.
Happy Days.
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Same thing, except I had Input[^] instead of Byte.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Nope, it was Input, not Byte. Funny how your mind plays tricks on you like this. They might even be in my parent's loft, I'll see if I can shin up there for a trip down memory lane.
And I learned more from the mistakes, and the bits I had to fill in when the paper shop failed to deliver an issue, than I did from the main articles.
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My first programming was done for school on an IBM 360 in 1966. However, my first development was done on an Intel Intellec 8. This was run by an Intel 8008 (not a typo for 8080) chip back in 1973.
Fletcher Glenn
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BBC Micro B[^] in 1987
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Did you ever play PooperPig [^](downloaded from Ceefax)?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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At uni, it was an ICL 1900[^], but for actual work it was a Prime 400[^] at the Rutherford Laboratory, Harwell - 0.5 MIPS, 2MB of RAM and 160MB of HDD - and played a mean Colossal Cave! Twenty users! VDU's!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Ah yes. ICL 1904 with card punches and a batch reader back in 1980. 
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ICL 1901 in 1970, getting ready for decimalisation
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PDP-11 at the high school.
First home system was an Amstrad 1512. Replaced the DR-DOS (or whatever) and its GEM interface  with MS-DOS 4. Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++.
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386dx-33, in 92/93. It even had a Tseng Labs 24-bit svga adapter.
Still got the book for DR-DOS 6.0 somewhere.
Tried Turbo Pascal 6.0 for a few months before giving up in disgust and moving onto TASM. A slowish machine (as compared to machines available in 93), low memory-4mb, 64kb segmented memory and no floating point unit all helped one to hone a comprehensive understanding of the architecture. Though I never did get around to bank-switching the vga card to make use of any video modes needing more than 64k of memory.
Directly programming the OPL registers in the sound-card was some fun too - none of this protected memory stuff. Just raw, naked access to the hardware. Yeah baby! Extremely limited vectors for catching virii tend to make one happy to have access to all memory at once.
Video Mode 0x13h - oh how I remember thee!
char *screenPtr = 0xA0000;
screenPtr[x + y*320] = color;
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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I started puttering around with drawing shapes in ascii using tandy basic on Trash-80 color 2 with 4k of ram in the late 80's. Depending on if you counted the schools computer or my parents, my first real programming was turbo pascal on a 386 with 1(?)mb ram (theirs) on a 486-25 with 4mb in '96.
I first got paid to develop on a D600 with a PM-1600 and either 2 or 4 GB of ram in 2005.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Amstrad CPC 6128+[^] with floppy disk !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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One of these: Commodore 64[^].
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Ditto
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Ditto
I've never heard of a 'Ditto'. Was that a special model?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Yep, came with a cassette drive. Slow and buggy as hell! 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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+1 for me on the Commodore 64. Soon after I bought myself a Trash-80 and I thought I was really living large until I built myself an Apple II clone. It was so much fun back then.
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Ditto that on the C64 (though it wasn't my first, a TI). Also had a special add-on cartridge - one of those ones that you buy from the massive computer supply stores with the big catalogs (remember the days of pre-internet catalogs?). I never quite took the time to understand how the cartridge worked, but boy did it make a difference in load times! Load just about anything in under 10 seconds. It was so much faster you would think it would just be destroying the disks in the process, but I never had any problems with the disks (ah, remember DS DD?).
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IBM-PC AT (80286, 6MHz), 512K RAM, 20 MB hard disk, 2x floppy drives (5.25" 260K, 5.25" 1.2M), Hercules CGA video card, Princeton Graphics System color monitor, Okidata 192 Microline dot matrix printer, Rockwell 300 baud modem, MS-DOS 3.0, Lattice-C compiler. Also 1985.
/ravi
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Somehow Ravi, your post has reminded me of a particular scene from the Futurama series.
The one where Bender is getting all hot and bothered at seeing the circuit diagrams of old robots.
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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I had to Wikipedia Futurama and Bender.
/ravi
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