On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 12:07 am, Russell Chapman wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldestDepends on a few definitions. I worked on an IBM system in the early 70s, but it was just data entry. I had no idea how to go beyond the application interface.
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. :-)
I wrote BASIC programs on a minicomputer at high school in the mid 70's. Also wrote FORTRAN programs on coding sheets which got sent off to be run on the university mainframe, and we'd get the results back in a week or two...
I had (still have) a programmable HP calculator (still play lunar lander, even though my PDA does it in 16m colours and the the calculator does it as glowing red numbers) in 1976.
HP25 ? I had one of those. The keyboard broke after about 15 years and I replaced it with a HP15C.
My first personal computer was Commodore Vic20 with optional extra cassette drive, before I upgraded to the monstrously powerful TRS-80 which had VisiCalc - oh the power!
My first personal computer was a Sinclair Spectrum in 1982
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