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What was your first experience?
lagagnon:
I entered a brand new Junior High - High school complex recently built in 1968. I was in Grade 8 (13 years old). No expense spared in that place. The huge industrial arts area had a PDP-8 computer. I learned to program tic-tac-toe on the thing - without really knowing what the hell I was doing. The thing was beyond our teachers ability as well!
Then again not till 1st year Uni 5 years later - used teletype terminals and punch card feeding into an IBM mainframe running the MTS operating system. After that I used almost every computer and OS known to man during my long career as a geologist....
jpeters:
My first computer was an Atari ST. For fun I wrote a statistical package (Multiple Regression, Factor Analysis, etc, in Basic based on some books I found in the UC Berkeley Library (UC had these books on how to run analyses on a hand calculator!). Later I just hacked into the UC system at Evans Hall and ran their SPSS program, my first experience with UNIX. I used this to run stats for my PhD dissertation.
I remember purchasing my first color monitor, and the external singe/double disk drives..each with a separate transformer. Graphics involved piecing together bitmaps. I remember logging onto a virtual community (PARKS), where people built text-based virtual worlds, and writing little programs that allowed me to monitor peoples' "private" rooms unnoticed (except by a few other geeks also parked in the room in their "invisible" vehicles) .
Musically, the Atari did just about everything a modern computer can do, with decent compositional software and midi interfaces. I remember when the Falcon came out...a terrific upgrade that never took off, because Atari was run by a bunch of geeks that had no clue how to market (they never made it to the shelves of any major distributors, and then underpriced their own distributors so they went out of business).
nickispeaki:
in 1988 in school Korvet (USSR pc) with cpm. Then in university Yamaha and 386 with m$DOS 3, apple classic, ... acer aspire now.
junan:
Intel 286 PC with PC DOS, with Monochrome monitor. Follow the x86 path, from 286 -> 386 -> 486DX -> Pentium 233MMX -> Pentium III 933 , convert to AMD XP2700 and now using AMD X2 (the price is right)
And the monitor from Monochrome -> CGA -> EGA -> VGA ...
PingPing:
My first computing experience? Using one of those typewriter thingys remotely over a modem (accoustic coupler) to a VAX.
My first experience? Two kernels at the same time ;D
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