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To: zeugma

I started with a Commodore 64.


5 posted on 08/17/2016 10:38:56 AM PDT by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: umgud

My ‘first’ was a Timex-Sinclair TS-1000!...................with 16k memory extension module!...............


13 posted on 08/17/2016 10:44:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: umgud

1982
Unix PDP 1130
Installed the RS Board and sent data to a sister location in Salt Lake City over the phone system.
Hey, Al Gore invented it, right?

I have been hooked ever-since.


43 posted on 08/17/2016 11:01:16 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: umgud
I started with a Commodore 64.

I had one of those, plus a Timex 1000, and a "Trash 80". :-)


66 posted on 08/17/2016 11:17:19 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: umgud
I started with a Commodore 64.
Yeah, me too. Had a lot of fun with my two sons typing in game programs from Commodore magazine.
72 posted on 08/17/2016 11:19:45 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: umgud
IBM 650 (bi-quinary), you got access for an hour and the entire "machine" was yours, used SOAP with core/drum memory.

Knuth's dedicates his opus to one and the same, inspired his instructional MIX computer.

94 posted on 08/17/2016 11:42:15 AM PDT by jamaksin
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