Re: For the fun of it

["Polymorph" <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

littlejohn918 wrote:
> Bill Heckel wrote:
> > Hey gang,
> >
> > Let's have some fun....
> >
> > Post your current age and the first computer you ever used.
>
> 39, The first computer I used was an Apple II+ in highschool '82. My
> first personal computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000, and I still use it
> today, wedging my bedroom door open. (Just kidding!) I only got back
> into the Apple scene about 2 years ago. I found 2 Apple IIe's literally
> burried at a junk yard. (victims of a local school)  Had to use a
> shovel to retreive them from the ground. After 2 weeks, a soak in the
> tub, 2 bottles of rubbing alcohol, 200 Qtips, and countless hours
> pulling roots out from under the IC chips, I fired them up without so
> much as a hiccup. They are my daily use machines today.

Thats really awesome that they still worked after being buried!! But
then would you expect anything else from an Apple?  :-)

Anyhow, I'm 32 and my first computer used was one that my dad built (it
was a kit) around 1979. I'm not sure what it was (I'll have to ask
him), but it was a one piece unit with a cassette drive enclosed within
the unit. The only thing I remember playing on it was space invaders.

I first programmed in basic on a friends Dick Smith VZ300 in around
1985 - these were apparently the Australian version of the VTech Laser
310. As I didn't own a computer myself, I used to write the programs in
pencil in the back of a school workbook and then type them in when I
got to my friends place.... I'm now a software engineer and I'm glad I
don't follow the same methods as when I was 12!!   X0

My first computer was a II+ clone that I bought around 1986. I had it
for a year or two before the drives started misbehaving (probably only
dirty drive heads, but I didn't know how to fix it at that time). I
sold it and bought a genuine Apple ][e (unenhanced) in 1988 (which I
still have although I recently blew the motherboard and have yet to
determine the problem).

I too have only recently returned to the Apple II world within the last
6 months, after having been lured to the "dark side" in 1992 (ie.
bought a PC clone...).

By the way, this is a great thread and I've been very interested in
reading other posters 1st computer experiences. There's certainly a lot
of variations! 

cheers,
-p