Where did you get started?
Monday, July 30, 2001 by Draginol | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
So how the heck did you get into computers in the first place?
When did the illness begin?
For me, I started off playing video games on my dad's Apple II (which now lives in our basement). And got my own C-64 for Christmas. It was all down hill from there...
When did the illness begin?
For me, I started off playing video games on my dad's Apple II (which now lives in our basement). And got my own C-64 for Christmas. It was all down hill from there...
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migellito
Reply #3 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:16 AM
very first experience with computers was after school in the math room in 7th grade - 1980. programming games (verrry simple ones) on an apple 2 while i learned basic.. hehe..
i remember when a friend got one of the first macs, and when i saw it the first thing i tried to do was get a command line.. haha.. i dismissed it because i couldn't 'really' -use- the thing..
Reply #3 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:16 AM
very first experience with computers was after school in the math room in 7th grade - 1980. programming games (verrry simple ones) on an apple 2 while i learned basic.. hehe..
i remember when a friend got one of the first macs, and when i saw it the first thing i tried to do was get a command line.. haha.. i dismissed it because i couldn't 'really' -use- the thing..
DaWebMassa
Reply #4 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:21 AM
Reply #4 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:21 AM
My now ex-wife talked me into buying a computer to run my landscaping business. I bought a $600 Radio Shack Color Computer with a casette drive! Took one look at the book for programming it and said "forget this crap." Three months later I decided to either learn it or sell it. I've been working in the computer field for 15 years now.
By the way, I also messed with OS/9 for the color computer which was supposedly a hacked version of Unix.
By the way, I also messed with OS/9 for the color computer which was supposedly a hacked version of Unix.
TasT
Reply #5 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:07 AM
Reply #5 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:07 AM
Programing in basic on a Timex Sinclair 1000 with the 16k expansion.
charmed
Reply #6 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:09 AM
Reply #6 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:09 AM
My dad made me take a summer class programming the TI99/4A back in like 1981. It's been downhill ever since.
I've got cartridges from my old Atari 2600 that have the year 1979 printed on them. Can you freakin' believe that? I still think I'm a kid... but then I was buying games in 1979.
Yikes!
I've got cartridges from my old Atari 2600 that have the year 1979 printed on them. Can you freakin' believe that? I still think I'm a kid... but then I was buying games in 1979.
Yikes!
MobiusCo
Reply #7 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:45 AM
Reply #7 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:45 AM
Became addicted when pong hit the shelves. Then was estatic when I got my first Atari 800 and learned to do small graphics if you can call them that in DOS. Expanded to the powerful osborne portable computers...Which a TI scientific calculator is now more powerful. So all in all started when computers where the size of small stores and running on vacuum tubes and have been lost ever since.
DavidK
Reply #8 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:12 AM
Reply #8 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:12 AM
I got to hang around the invention of computer graphics in 1970 at Ohio State where three artists and the entire math department were creating crude monochrome line drawings on a UNIVAC that cost thousands of dollars per hour to run. Several years later I studied fortran and cobal just long enough to decide that I was not a programmer at heart. Worked with a Motorola Four-Phase system in '78 and then with Visicalc on an Atari for doing retail shop records. Breifly played with a Comodore and then got my son an Apple IIc in '85 (I think).
I managed to avoid becoming a computer fanatic though until '88 when I finally bought a PC and a modem. I've been squandering my life savings on computer equipment ever since.
I managed to avoid becoming a computer fanatic though until '88 when I finally bought a PC and a modem. I've been squandering my life savings on computer equipment ever since.
Jafo
Reply #9 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:15 AM
Reply #9 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:15 AM
About 1970...paper clip and punch cards....4-tran University main-frame at school....
Graduated 'down' to a Commodore 64....many years later....[still got an emulator]....
Programming in basic...P.I.T.A.....
Then just one clone after another....
Graduated 'down' to a Commodore 64....many years later....[still got an emulator]....
Programming in basic...P.I.T.A.....
Then just one clone after another....
AJCrowley
Reply #10 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:53 AM
Reply #10 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:53 AM
Draginol - I can't remember, this would've been in the late 70s/early 80s. What I do remember is that there was a grey square, and a slightly darker grey square, you could move up and down AND left and right (better than tennis!), and you had to somehow destroy the other block. Based on the TV at the time being most likely 640x480 resolution, I'd estimate the resolution put out by this machine to be somewhere in the region of 32x24.
juni
Reply #11 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:00 AM
Reply #11 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:00 AM
Got my own c-64 as a kid, used an apple-II in school, VAX and UNIX machines in college.
fearoffours
Reply #12 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:03 AM
Reply #12 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:03 AM
my babysitter used to bring his c-64 round every wednesday... I either got to watch dallas or play on his c-64
MarkMcQ
Reply #13 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:38 AM
Reply #13 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:38 AM
I started on an old Amstrad CPC464, got my first PC a few years back for nothing, from a friend.
Now I seem to be regressing, as I'm now getting obssesed with SNES, Genesis and Mame emulators.
Now I seem to be regressing, as I'm now getting obssesed with SNES, Genesis and Mame emulators.
Serge Ponderosa
Reply #14 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:40 AM
Reply #14 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:40 AM
A second-hand Amiga 500, only to play better RPGs than the Genesis or NES ones. I was so hooked I bought a 1200 3 months later. Then I wished I had a real monitor, a hard drive and some more RAM. And I realized it was going to cost me as much as a PC. Seeing as Origin had just released Ultima 7 on PC only, I bought (reluctantly) an AMD DX40. And I never looked back...
Mackintosh
Reply #15 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:58 AM
Reply #15 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:58 AM
Ummm...I got a ZX Spectrum for Christmas, back in...1983, 84? Damn, I can't remember, it's been so long Moved on to a C64 after that. Then came an Amstrad-Schneider CPC 6128, after that an Amiga 500 I think. I had an Atari STD 1640(?) as well. Geez, I've gone through a lot of computers in my relatively short life span Never had an original IBM PC though, had a PS/2 Model 80 A 286 after that, followed by an IBM PS/1, jumped to a 486 clone, followed by a Pentium 90, killed off by a Pentium Pro, which got replaced by a P166MMX, but that one didn't last long, until the 233MMX and I think I've gone through almost every Intel CPU since then until I leapfrogged 800-933Mhz to get a 1Ghz. Now I've got a P4 1.5 and a 1.8 and keeping an old 733 for benchmarking. That about does it I think.
Moved on to a C64 after that. Then came an Amstrad-Schneider CPC 6128, after that an Amiga 500 I think. I had an Atari STD 1640(?) as well. Geez, I've gone through a lot of computers in my relatively short life span Never had an original IBM PC though, had a PS/2 Model 80 A 286 after that, followed by an IBM PS/1, jumped to a 486 clone, followed by a Pentium 90, killed off by a Pentium Pro, which got replaced by a P166MMX, but that one didn't last long, until the 233MMX and I think I've gone through almost every Intel CPU since then until I leapfrogged 800-933Mhz to get a 1Ghz. Now I've got a P4 1.5 and a 1.8 and keeping an old 733 for benchmarking. That about does it I think.
craeonics
Reply #16 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 6:19 AM
Reply #16 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 6:19 AM
Learned a cool little drawing language called Logo in school, borrowed an ancient 386 from my uncle and played around in Basic a bit (and then decided I didn't like it at all). Bribed my parents into finally buying a computer when I was 19 and that's the same machine I'm working on right now (the infamous p75).
Always been more of a console guy really, moved from NES to SNES (incuding a ProfighterX to play all the FF games that were never released here) to N64 and got me a PSX to play FF7.
Always been more of a console guy really, moved from NES to SNES (incuding a ProfighterX to play all the FF games that were never released here) to N64 and got me a PSX to play FF7.
gillon
Reply #17 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:33 PM
Reply #17 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:33 PM
In 1992, we were using wordperfect 5 for dos and When we were offered an opportunity to lease a computer through the agency I did. Up until then, all I could do was turn it on. I have been hooked ever since. I am not on the programing end but I am one of the few unofficial computer experts in our agency. My background is art so the computer gave me the medium I was looking for.
paxx
Reply #18 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:47 PM
Reply #18 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:47 PM
My first computer was a Radio Shack's Coco, back around 1982 or so... I think...
Learned a bit of basic with it. My first program was an alarm clock. Hehehe!
Then, after that, I really didn't touch computers until about 1989 or so when I went back to school in college; I then bough a Mac Plus (black and white) for my homeworks. I kept it for a number of years, then bough a 486 in 1995. That's when I discovered the Internet and started building web pages.
The rest is history.
Learned a bit of basic with it. My first program was an alarm clock. Hehehe!
Then, after that, I really didn't touch computers until about 1989 or so when I went back to school in college; I then bough a Mac Plus (black and white) for my homeworks. I kept it for a number of years, then bough a 486 in 1995. That's when I discovered the Internet and started building web pages.
The rest is history.
RobbieRobb
Reply #19 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:42 PM
Reply #19 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:42 PM
Waaaayyy way back in the late 70's early 80's got the Pong unit. From there I got the Atari 2600 and amassed a huge collection of carts for it. As far as actual, programmable computers, I bought an Atari 400 when they first came out (complete with membrane keyboard yippee!), moved up to an 800XL, expanded it heavily (through addon products and some soldering - had a completely separate keyboard that I could pull down onto my lap), bought a $1200 20MB Seagate HD for it for my BBS (yes, that tweleve hundred). Ran the 3rd largest Atari BBS in the world for a while (there was an 80MB one in England and a 50MB in Texas).
After that I moved onto a 1040ST then to a Mega/STe8 (the 8MB model). Upgraded the 50MB harddrive in it to a 540MB. FOr those that remember TOS, there was a physical limit to partition size so I had drives A:-R:
Once I started University (the second time around) for Comp Sci I picked up a Packard Bell 75MHz Pentium computer that was shipping with Win3.1 but had a free upgrade to Win95 as soon as it came out (about a month after I bought the cpu). From then on I've been with M$ o/s with a brief period of using Solaris on the systems at school. Now I've got 5 computers all running Windows of various flavours and no looking back...
What a strange a colorful trip its been...
After that I moved onto a 1040ST then to a Mega/STe8 (the 8MB model). Upgraded the 50MB harddrive in it to a 540MB. FOr those that remember TOS, there was a physical limit to partition size so I had drives A:-R:
Once I started University (the second time around) for Comp Sci I picked up a Packard Bell 75MHz Pentium computer that was shipping with Win3.1 but had a free upgrade to Win95 as soon as it came out (about a month after I bought the cpu). From then on I've been with M$ o/s with a brief period of using Solaris on the systems at school. Now I've got 5 computers all running Windows of various flavours and no looking back...
What a strange a colorful trip its been...
RobbieRobb
Reply #20 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:43 PM
Reply #20 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:43 PM
oooh, forgot about a programming stint in public school on the Commodore PET computers with tape drives. The one program I wrote had about 2000 lines of code and took about 15 minutes to load in...hehe...
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Reply #1 Monday, July 30, 2001 11:26 PM