* Dan Minette [Tue, 07/10/2003 at 17:02 -0500] > OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest > computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned > before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Nothing exceptionnal in absolute value on my side, but I swear I was 'bleeding edge' : The first programmable thing my fingers grabbed (and that I owned) was a TI57 circa 1976, I remember passionate conversations with my math teacher about the compared virtues of such or such GCD or HCF algorithm. The first 'real' computer I used was a Logabax LX-500 near 1979, you've probably never heard of this computer, it was a Z80 based French computer, at the time we had 8 of them for the whole high school (+2000 students). Needless to say, at the time nobody could privateley own a computer here (at least I knew nobody in my circles). The first computer I owned was a Atari1040 in 1988 I think. PS: a link I found on the LX-500 http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=881 -- Jean-Marc _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
