Re: First computers . . .

[<rtdos@qwest.net>]

I myself started out on Atari, then a few years later got my dad his own
Commodore 64 because I didn't want to share my Atari anymore.  I liked it
because it was fun to program in BASIC.  It was the kind of BASIC that made
programming fun.  It was specifically geared toward the sound and graphics
capabilities of the machine.



<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.
>