On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Brian Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Michael Schultheiss <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Curt Lundgren wrote: >> > OK, if we're digging into the past, and if I may be so bold as to >> > suggest a slight expansion of the topic, in what year did you get >> > your >> > first computer and what was it? > > My parents saved up and bought a TI - 99 4a when I was 10 years old. I loved > it! They shipped me off to computer camp that summer and I learned the > beginnings of BASIC. I remember saving programs on a damn cassette recorder. > You could listen to it load/save which is crazy to think about now. > > After a few years I got an Apple ][c which I found out recently my mom > kept. She brought it to me and I got real excited that it might be worth > something on EBay. Wow, I was wrong. I still have it out in my garage. > > Looking back I was lucky that my parents had the foresight to spend their > money on computers for me at such a young age. As frustrating as they can be > sometimes computers have been good to me, and afforded my family a nice > life. > > -Brian >
My first computer ran XP. :( Got it soon after XP came out. Around 1993, my mom got something from '81 without a hard disk to practice typing on. Green phosphorous monitor and two giant floppy drives. It came with a stack of business floppies, but I never found anything more exciting than spreadsheet applications. I was 12. Boy's Life magazine would run the occasional example 1 page BASIC program as a feature, and I'd spend a few hours typing it in and hunting for my typos just to play a text only mountain climber. I played another one that was ascii grapical and was supposed to be an airplane flying over a skyline, but I had no idea how it worked from the code that I'd entered. I never learned how to save these, so I'd have to find the magazine and recreate it each time. I convinced my parents to let me leave the computer running for a few days to count to a Billion with a GOTO loop. It wasn't fast enough. Got to 1,000,000 after a few days. After this, I learned the wonders of "beep" and had to yank the power from the wall to make the horrible sound stop. I don't remember what happened to the computer after that, but I don't remember playing with it anymore. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
