Re: First computers . . .

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

Geoff Pool wrote:
> 
> Byron 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?
> >
> > 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.


	The first machine I used (well, I'd played with others in the stores)
was the TI-99/4A that I received as a X-Mas gift in '82 (I was ten). 
I've had...many...since:

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