Re: First computers . . .

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

dev.null@personal.information.com writes:
>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?

My first access to a `personal computer' was a Wang we had at high school.

I then played with TRS-80 & PET computers in stores and bought an OSI
Challeger 1P (6502, 8K BASIC, 4K RAM, 24x24 screen). Later I bought a //e
clone (MPF-III). Since then I have been given or bought 2nd hand another
three //e, a //gs, a couple of //c and a ][+ motherboard.

I am now using PCs mainly (from a 486DX-4 100 through 586-P75 & 6x86-MII PR200
to 2x Cel433 in SMP mode in an Abit BP6).

I think the nicest 8 bit micro was the 6809.
--
David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia