Re: First computers . . .

[salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <ggd_5.2638$uK6.365369@news1.telusplanet.net>,
 <dev.null@personal.information.com> wrote:
>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?

Not me, though I probably know more about the II at this point than I know
about the machines I used before it.  The first computer I had at home was a
TI-99/4A, the first computer on which I did any significant amount of coding
was my grandfather's CoCo, and the first computer with which I did much of
anything (and it really wasn't much) was a TRS-80 Model I in the local
school district's TAG program when I was in 4th grade.

On the CoCo, I had been getting halfway decent at BASIC and was even
beginning to dabble a bit in 6809 assembly language.  That came in handy
when I started picking up 6502 assembly on the II a year or so later.

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