Re: First computers . . .

[Scott Sidley <sidleyr@jb.saic.com>]

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?

My first computer was a HP2000 via 110 bps datasets, my first microprocessor was
a TMS9900 evaluation board, I think the Apple //+ was number 5, and the first one
I actually purchased was my first //e which still runs today.