19-07-2005, 20:02
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Re: my first computer
I started off using an acorn atom, then moved onto a commodore VC20...
And an ohio superboard.
When I was at school I had an acord electron, then got a bbc 'b' - which was massively upgraded.
After a brief flirtation with amigas (500 - 600 - 1200).... I finally moved into the pc world with a 486.
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19-07-2005, 20:07
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Re: my first computer
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I also used to spend hours 'poking' hex numbers into memory to make a crap 'manhattan' type game, or similar  - I never did 'Master Machine Code on Your ZX Spectrum' |
HEX they use that to program modern cpu's dont they 
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19-07-2005, 23:19
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Re: my first computer
Heh, forgot to mention that my first PC was a Viglen 386SX, which had a stonking 8MB Ram and an 80MB HDD ...yes, that's right, just 80MB. I still managed to have Win 3.11 installed, along with MS Word for work/studying, and also Championship Manager and Wolfenstein 3D for playing. It, however, did come with both 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" floppy drives, which was nice! 
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19-07-2005, 23:28
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Re: my first computer
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wait 20 years then look back and cringe at what you have got
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5 Months you mean 
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19-07-2005, 23:31
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Re: my first computer
I had some weird thing by Olivetti - it was a PC not a typewriter Had an RF output so I used a portable TV as the monitor. An integral keyboard casing housed the "motherboard", with an ancient 8086 type processor and a single floppy 3 1/2" floppy. Used DOS and had something called GEM which supposedly was a graphical display. And then there was the hideously noisy dot matrx printer 
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19-07-2005, 23:33
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Re: my first computer
I know this is going to seem a weird question but when did the Internet first launch. Was it 1995?
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19-07-2005, 23:34
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Re: my first computer
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Originally Posted by homealone
I also used to spend hours 'poking' hex numbers into memory to make a crap 'manhattan' type game, or similar - I never did 'Master Machine Code on Your ZX Spectrum' |
HEX they use that to program modern cpu's dont they |
no, binary 'machine' code is used for cpu's - the hex is how we humans try & understand it, decimal/ascii 255 is binary 11111111 is hex FF - and that is just 16 bit - like Dorian Gray - it's complicated
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19-07-2005, 23:38
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Re: my first computer
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Heh, forgot to mention that my first PC was a Viglen 386SX, which had a stonking 8MB Ram and an 80MB HDD ...yes, that's right, just 80MB. I still managed to have Win 3.11 installed, along with MS Word for work/studying, and also Championship Manager and Wolfenstein 3D for playing. It, however, did come with both 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" floppy drives, which was nice! |
dont knock it we have given the younger kids a laptop (t1910ts) toshiba
with a wapping 125mb hdd and trying as it will to run win95
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I know this is going to seem a weird question but when did the Internet first launch. Was it 1995?
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eerm dont quote me but i was using a modem in 1985 to access servers but that wasnt the world wide web
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19-07-2005, 23:38
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Re: my first computer
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I know this is going to seem a weird question but when did the Internet first launch. Was it 1995?
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Darpanet (upon which the Internet was based) was launched in the late 60s.
What you are probably referring to (the World Wide Web) was first demonstrated in 1993 and launched in 1993.
Bear in mind that although most people know the World Wide Web as the internet, the Internet itself is just a huge number of Interconnection computer networks covering the world and uses many methods of access of which the Web is just one.
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20-07-2005, 00:00
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Re: my first computer
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I know this is going to seem a weird question but when did the Internet first launch. Was it 1995?
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Darpanet (upon which the Internet was based) was launched in the late 60s.
What you are probably referring to (the World Wide Web) was first demonstrated in 1993 and launched in 1993.
Bear in mind that although most people know the World Wide Web as the internet, the Internet itself is just a huge number of Interconnection computer networks covering the world and uses many methods of access of which the Web is just one. |
I was referring to the WWW. Wow 1993. So its 11 years old.
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20-07-2005, 00:08
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Re: my first computer
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I was referring to the WWW. Wow 1993. So its 11 years old. |
and thats 12
makes me feel like an antique
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20-07-2005, 00:14
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Re: my first computer
Sinclair ZX Spectrum +
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20-07-2005, 00:20
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Re: my first computer
We've done this several times now - so just to repeat - Apple II
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20-07-2005, 00:25
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Re: my first computer
MATT was it a 128+ 
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this was suposed to be about the fun and nightmares of the old computers
like waiting for 30 mins for a game to load just to get <an error occured in line 4425436 rewind the tape and try again>
but never mind
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20-07-2005, 00:26
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Re: my first computer
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MATT was it a 128+ |
Nope, a +.
Like the original 48k Speccy, but the keys weren't made of rubber.
Next one we had after that was the +2A (effectively a Speccy128 with built-in tape drive).
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