Re: First computers . . .

["Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>]

The first computer I owned was a ][-plus with CP/M card. I had that for a
couple of months before I got my Laser 128. I learnt to program in Applesoft
on the Laser 128.

Then three years later, at the age of eight, I got a 286 PC w/ 512k RAM and
CGA. It ran Windows 3.0 nicely.

Simon.

> 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.