Re: First computers . . .

["Mark Hasslinger" <hkram@milwpc.com>]

after reading abut 75% of these replies I haven't come across one Sinclair
1000/ ZX80. I used it for work for word processing and learned it's Basic
language to program it like a programmable calculator but was more fun to
use because I could print solutions with its thermal 4" wide printer and
vary the out put with more sophistication. Some one from Italy sent me an
emulator for it last year and it was fun running it again. Also in the mid
70's I also used the shared timed mainframe thing writing programs for N.C.
machine tools via Compact II.

Mark Hasslinger
Hi Joe!

<dev.null@personal.information.com> wrote in message
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> While reading about the bad-old-days of computing I came across the
statement
> that, "it is well known in the computer science field that programmers
tend to
> think of the first machine they ever used as being one of the most
interest-
> ing."  And I am curious, how many of you started out on an Apple II?
>
> The Apple II was probably the third computer I used, but I am most fond of
it
> because it is the one machine that I spent a lot of time learning how to
> program.  (The first two were more like toys, the C=64 and VIC-20.)
>
> Byron.