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Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
I started computing on a Commodore 64, then was turned on to PCs when the 8088 came out and Microsloth DOS v 3.2. Ran one of the largest dual node BBSs on a 286 running DOS/DesqView/PCBoard. Started in *NIX on an AT&T 3B2, then really started to see the light when moving to AIX on IBM RS/6000.
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[ December 05, 2001: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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what? No Vic 20???
I'm only 15 and even i started out on a Vic 20, then moved up to the fancy commodore 64.
iancom:
Let's see... I was 12 when I started 'working' with VIC-20's (my school had ten of them in their computer workshop and I sort of looked after them and helped everyone else with them). I'm now 29 which means that was 17 years ago.
I'm guessing your VIC-20 wasn't new when you started using it!
I did like the old Commodores. My very first computer (well not really mine, my dad's but since I worked out how to use it before he did...) was a Commodore PET, when I was about 7. Huge cast iron all-in-one thing with a tiny 10" monochrome monitor, 8kb RAM and a tape drive.
Wrote many BASIC programs for my dad (one was sort of a database to keep track of his darts league statistics), and then moved over to the Spectrum in '82...
I sometimes think that everyone should be made to spend a few months using various old consumer computers before they're allowed to go near newer ones... particularly, not having hard disks and suchlike really made you appreciate the difference between 'memory' and 'disk space' which so many lusers today cannot get their heads round.
Before anyone asks, sadly my mum threw out the old Commodore PET while I wasn't looking. I bet it would be worth a few quid now...
voidmain:
Oh yeah, old age and good memory are linear. I did have a VIC-20 before the 64 although I didn't have it long before getting a 64 so I forgot about it. And I was out of school when I got my "new" machines. Tape drive and all.
Master of Reality:
i happen to know someone who had an Imagination Machine, what year did those come out??
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