Re: For the fun of it

["touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com>]

Bill Heckel wrote:
> Hey gang,
>
> Let's have some fun....
>
> Post your current age and the first computer you ever used.

I'm 46.

The first computer I ever used was a teletype terminal connected to
some unknown timesharing system at a high school in late 1976. I was
only at the school for a couple of months and remember playing a text
Adventure game on it a time or two. Coolest thing I'd ever seen!

In college I used keypunch cards to program in FORTRAN, PL/I, and
Assembler on some member of the IBM System/360 family of mainframes.
Also did some BASIC, Pascal, PL/I, COBOL, and Assembler on a Vax
system, in my later college days.

First personal computer was an Apple ][ that I bought used, I think in
late 1980 or early 1981. It's a revision 3, date code 7903, that I
still have. It was originally a 16K machine (still has a faded "16K"
sticker on the space bar) that had been upgraded to 48K. I got the ROM
card with the Applesoft ROMs, a pair of Disk ][ drives, and some other
goodies with it. I kept upgrading it (Lower case chip, shift-key mod,
64K RAM, 80-column card, ProGrappler, Wildcard, etc.) and used it
heavily until I got a Woz IIGS, which I also still have. The IIGS was
also upgraded with 6MB RAM, a 60 MB hard drive, Audio Animator, and
eventually a PC Transporter before I finally went over to the "dark
side".

Dave