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You are sooo right!!!
In Germany I often realize that many people are kinda "in fear" of high-tech products.
They are getting more and more hostile towards new technologie, I think mainly because they are not able to understand how it works and that there is no danger and so they are stopping high-tech projects because there are many people protesting against things they don't know anything about... And I think there is a similar situation in the United States and in many other western states.
I hope the way people are thinking about that will change in the future, or we will get big problems because our states earn their money by producing technologie...
Don't try it, just do it! 
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It's simply a Prophet-Mountain relationship, the age they meet just depends on their speed and general orientation.
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
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mlog || Agile Programming | doxygen
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yeah
I think the the people can't understand these technic. So they have fear about it, because they can't fathom it.
scio me nihil scire
My OpenSource(zlib/libpng License) Engine:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rendertech
Its incurable, its a Pentium division failure.
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Hi,
my very first experience in programming was the basic on an ZX81!
Do you remember?
I found the very interesting site:
http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/contents.htm
Have a look and much fun...
Manfred Becker (ManiB)
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Yep. I bought the kit and built mine. Had to balance a carton of frozen milk against the 16K memory module to stop it overheating. Them were the days
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I never tried that, strangely the damn RAM pack never blew up, I actually got hooked on grandad's C64, but I only had the ZX81 at home. Keyboard gave in way too soon though.
Conrad - conradb@adroit.co.za
Always do badly to start off, that way when you get the hang of it suddenly, everyone is surprised.
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I start computing when I saw for the first time a ZX80!
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WOW !
That's the first computer i ever saw. I remember watching my father assembling it. I learned basic on it...
1981 geesh that means I learned at the age of 8 ....
Chris.
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I remember too the ZX81. That was a big word that I learned from my father and that I used with my friends. Yeah! I am going to play with the Sinclair ZX81. Anyway. I also remember him loading the games and the programs we did from a tape.
It was cool.
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I had an add on board that allowed me to change the character set.
I remember getting on the train from Doncaster to Sheffield in the snow to pick up a 16K rampack @ WHSmith , it was the only place that had on in stock.
Remember making the 1st line a rem and then poking bytes into the line to write machine code ?
.netter
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Good old Radio Shack! Bought their assembly language cartridge and wrote a space invaders clone that you could control through voice input on the cassette port.
In high school they had Commodore Super Pet's with CPM operating system.
SPCA--we're here to inquire about the health of Dr. Schroedinger's cat<br />
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I started with the CoCo as well. My first had 16k and later on I moved up to 64k. I remember it was the coolest thing when I found out how to get those extra false color video modes enabled, but my happiest day was when I got actual floppy disk drives and could move off of cassette tapes.
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The play button on the cassette player was broken on my TRS-80. You had to sit there and hold down the play button. Got painful on long loading programs!
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Wow, they had color trash-80s?
I only got to work on a b&w version.
Nick
This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
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The first time that I ran Qbasic, I thought it was a text editor, and surprise, it isn't, then I read for weeks the online help, and I learn by myself. I remember that alert "Syntaxis Error", I didn't know what does mean syntaxis  .
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hxxbin
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lool... nice story
Don't try it, just do it!
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sin tax is what U get when you do something bad.
I remember learning Pascal with an ancient Borland compiler version 2 or 3, which we learned to love. There was no mouse menus in those days, the other thing it gave us was a PC when it crashed your app. Latter we discovered that PC did not mean XT or AT, it actually was a program counter or IP, a kind of primitive debugger line number.
Conrad - conradb@adroit.co.za
Always do badly to start off, that way when you get the hang of it suddenly, everyone is surprised.
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We got an (old) PDP 11 in our lab at school and I was real programmer then: I managed to toggle in the boot loader with the front panel dip switches from memory (well almost...)
bb |~ bb
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Yes, I remember way back when I got my first computer...
It was an AMD 2600, that was way back in 2003, but it seems just like yesterday
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kewl
my father bought our first pc when i was 6.
(now i have my own machines)
Don't try it, just do it!
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Dude!! That was YESTERDAY! 
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I started when I was 10 or 11 years old, with SuperLogo and Basic (a good old CBM 3032, still have it), but I used SuperLogo more ([b]much[/b] more).
I heard that C++ had more possibilities for me, cuz I began to find the limits of freedom of SuperLogo (speed and I/O) and they were disturbing me. So I started to learn C++, but I had no compiler. So I downloaded Digital Mars C++, but I wasn't very familiar with DOS-compilers. Small problem. Fixed just this year: I got VC++ 6 now.
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I learned HTML with 11 or 12 some days after I got my first computer (Pentium 120). But I am only 17 (nearly 18) years old, so thats not so far away. I do c++ only for 4 years ... and have no job 
Goodbye and thanks for the fish!
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I started playing at about 7, with a cartridge atari, playing games with the joysticks and paddles, then begged for a 48k zx speccy rubber keyed. Think i spent the next 2/3 years typing in programs from the mags you could buy, and a mag called INPUT, that would show listings for various machines to program in. From then I collected various spectrums, ie. 128k +2, 128k +3, then baught an Electron and a commordore 64. Then I saw an advert for a Sam Coupe (sort of in between a spectrum and an Amiga), but the company 'Miles Gordon Technolodgy' when bust after about 2 years sadly, I think it was a great little machine with loads of potential, and it got me into writing assembler. Then I baught an Amiga500, then an Amiga500+ and an Atari500, stayed with them for a couple of years, and then baught my first PC, a Packard Bell 25Mhz 2Mb ram Executive PC! lol. Never looked back since. But I do enjoy playing with the emulators for the speccy now and again
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