I miss the days of DOS, when 640k RAM was considered to be more than anyone would ever need! :rolleyes:

You make me feel ancient, now, Chris :im Not Worthy:

Motorola 6809E - TRS-80 Color Computer. I believe it was 1Mhz (sync'd to sound chip) ... I had a massive 32K, but was able to add 64K bubble RAM.

 

My first was the almost identical Dragon32, which was assembled in Port Talbot, Wales. It was also on this machine I bought my first flight sim Worlds of Flight by Microdeal.

 

I can't find any screens of the grapics, but to say they were not pretty was an understatement They started off ok but soon became a tangled mess of distorted wireframe polys. It was still thrilling at the time.

 

EDIT found it 

Wow, all you folk started at the top of the line in PCs ... 

 

Motorola 6809E - TRS-80 Color Computer.  I believe it was 1Mhz (sync'd to sound chip) ... I had a massive 32K, but was able to add 64K bubble RAM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was in fourth grade working with this one.  Follow the turtle.    :smile:

 

T. Headlam

 

 

 

This was my first - 1975 ish

 

Vic

I wonder how many of you still have these items of history? In my attic, boxed, in original and working condition, there lies a Vic20 , Commodore 64 and an Amiga 500 with tape decks and floppy drives. My son had a Commodore 128 which, with all the accompanying software, ended up at the National Museum of Scotland. They seemed quite keen to get it but, as far as I know, it never appeared as a display exhibit so I imagine it swapped our attic for the museum basement..lol

 

Mike

My first computer was a ZX Spectrum 48K @ Christmas 1982. I miss those tape loaded games :smile:

I miss those tape loaded games :smile:

 

That sound is so evocative my second PC was the ZX Spectrum +.

 

 

 

 

I wonder how many of you still have these items of history?

 

 

I got rid of all mine to someone I worked with years ago and the rest went at car boot sales. I've regretted it ever since

 

I'd love my Dragon and Speccy back, along with the hundreds of games I had.

 

 

 

Great Win10 thread this

I was serious when I said I've still got the Commodore 128!

 

I did most of my early programming on the Vic 20 - as I think I've mentioned before in another thread, I wrote a very basic flight simulator back around 1983/1984. Sadly, those Vic 20 tapes have long ago ceased to work - it would be brilliant to be able to boot that 'simulator' up again and see how good my 'flight model' was.

 

IMHO, Anyone who had more than 3.5K of usable RAM to work with was not working with a REAL old-school computer.
 

I do remember the TRS-80 mentioned above very well - something I used to aspire to own one day. Even dreamed of a ZX80 at one stage, with a whole 1K of RAM.

 

At the moment, still have a few early Macs (Plus, SE, SE/30 - dating from 1986/87/88) in working order - and a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator to go with them. Still kind of busy flying P3D v3, but when I get sick of it I'll boot one of the Macs and try out Meigs Field again.

Lesse... first computer I programmed... CDC 1604. First computer I owned... Commodore 64.

First computer I owned... Commodore 64.

 

 

Bah! the Speccy was better

 

After the Speccy I went AtariST which, of course was better than the Amiga.

 

Then it all went pear shaped as I got into consols, not returning to the PC until the year 2000 with a ripped AMD CPU'ed (and GeForce2MX GPU) gaming machine.

I swapped my Spectrum for a Commodore 64 in 1984, and then got an Amiga 500 in 1987.

After the Speccy I went AtariST which, of course was better than the Amiga.

 

 

No way, hosay! Where's that glove? Time for a duel methinks :Shame On You:

 

Remember 'Falcon' on the Amiga? Now that was a real sim.

 

Oh, and I've still got all the software, several cartridges for the Vic and a multitude of books...just couldn't bring myself to through anything out

 

Mike

2nd Computer I ever programmed on in my University days was this DEC PDP 11-44 .. initially punch cards then they soon switched to mono terminals - thank goodness!!

 

 

Cheers, Rob

 

 

This was my first

 

Ooow, Intel 8080 ... fancy shmancy.

 

Cheers, Rob

 

 

CDC 1604.

 

Even fancier ... a Cray!!   :im Not Worthy:

 

Cheers, Rob

11 inch disk pack with multiple platters. I worked with one that ran 11 disks in a single pack.

 

Primary programming interface was a optical mylar tape reader. Secondary interface was the primary door (this thing was huge) with a bunch of lights representing the bits in the registers and buttons beneath each one.

 

Ah the days of pure machine code.

You haven't lived until you've spent a week programing in Fortran 4 and then on the way to the collator you drop the box of cards on the floor.  After you think you've gotten them all picked up, including the ones that got stepped on and bent, it's time for a cry and a good stiff drink because it's probably going to take a few days to get them sorted out.  Ah yes, the good old days!