Your first computer

berndbausch · 11-10-2015, 05:16 AM

Atari 1024 (I don't remember the precise model number), 68000 processor, 1Mb RAM, monchrome bitmapped screen. Accidentally left it in Europe when I moved to Japan, breaks my heart.

chrism01 · 11-19-2015, 06:45 PM

1 don't remember my first PC at home, but the my first computer at work as a Dev was a ZX Spectrum with the rubber keyboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spe...trum_16K.2F48K

je_fro · 12-22-2015, 03:05 PM

My first computer was a Sinclair zx80. I think.
I'd have to search this thread to see what I said previously. I hope it's the same thing or else I'm developing some bad long term storage

Pastychomper · 12-24-2015, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by je_fro

My first computer was a Sinclair zx80. I think.
I'd have to search this thread to see what I said previously. I hope it's the same thing or else I'm developing some bad long term storage

Yes, you need to be careful with those microdrives.

Keith Hedger · 12-24-2015, 04:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Pastychomper

Yes, you need to be careful with those microdrives.

Ahhh! Hours of fun poking the tape back in!

flshope · 12-24-2015, 11:31 AM

Sinclair ZX-81 with the "big" memory at 16K. Also had the printer, which printed on a silvered strip of paper a few inches wide. It ran interpreted Basic (i.e., compile a line, execute a line). I used my Hi Fi cassette deck to store code. I used the ZX-81 to run CFD codes (though not quite in the same class as Fluent, CFX, CFD++, ...

).

If mainframes count ... IBM 7074 at Penn State in 1963. Input on punch cards, storage on open reel tapes, printout on 132-character-wide impact printer on 17-inch fan-fold paper.