30th Anniversary of the IBM PC - What was your first?
Yesterday was the 30th Anniversary of the release of the IBM PC. It was an interesting walk down memory lane going back and reading some of the reviews of the PC. Over at the ISC this started the discussion of "What was your first computer?" The ISC Handlers vary widely in age, so the answers predictably were quite variable. Oddly enough, although some of us worked with the IBM PC, none of us actually owned one, Timex Sinclair, TRS-80, IBM XT, 286 PC clone, Vic-20, Commodore-64, Amiga and Apple II were some of the answers.
Mine was a TRS80 Model I my Dad bought in about 1978. It was a 4K machine with a cassette tape drive. The first programming language I learned was Z80 assembler, followed shortly by Basic. The first real program I wrote was a bad graphical version of poker dice.
I would love to hear about your first...
-- Rick Wanner - rwanner at isc dot sans dot org - http://namedeplume.blogspot.com/ - Twitter:namedeplume (Protected)
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canonbkr
Aug 13th 2011
1 decade ago
Fun machine, I also became a Z80 assembly hack, and wrote a graphics emulator that used the 128x48 resolution screen as a window into a Commodore 64-sized screen of pixels!
Paul
Aug 13th 2011
1 decade ago
Simon
Aug 13th 2011
1 decade ago
Moriah
Aug 13th 2011
1 decade ago
Moriah
Aug 13th 2011
1 decade ago
2. C=64
3. Apple II
4. "Turbo" XT (IBM clone), 10MHz, upgraded from 128 to 640kB RAM, 2nd floppy drive at some point exchanged for a 10MB MFM harddisk, 1st floppy drive at some point taken from 360kB 5,25" to 1.44MB 3,5"
rbarclay
Aug 13th 2011
1 decade ago
Mike L
Aug 13th 2011
1 decade ago
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80
©TriMoon™
Aug 14th 2011
1 decade ago
Jaybee
Aug 14th 2011
1 decade ago
Swa
Aug 14th 2011
1 decade ago