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Started with a Commodore Amiga with all the fruit in what I think must have been 1988. Got a job as a controls tech (no idea why they hired me) in 1990 and after a week at work trying to figure out DOS on the company's IBM x86 machines I splashed out $4k on a 386 for home so I could teach myself.
MicroBee CPM machine with 64K and dual 3.5 720K floppy drives.
Ran commercial 'Office' style software for word processing, database and spreadsheets plus we wrote customer software for financial including invoicing and account management. Later I used this machine for PLC interface with my own (reverse engineered) code and hardware interface.
Image even thinking about doing that on 64K of memory now :)
First comp was a kit. Bought it second hand half built and finnished it. Can't remember the brand.
Next came the sharp MZ700 followed by the MZ800.
Since have had most of the PC's.
Favorite was the 386 with maths co processor, 8 meg ram, 40 meg HDD, Laser printer with 8meg print buffer and full pro scribe cartridge.
That thing used to wow everyone.
Vic 20 spend hours on it. Coding was fun, tape drive loading saved code was even entertaining for the first few days waiting:D
Amstrad with cassette, Boulder dash is all I remember, how do I find an original I can play now?
School friends 286 with liesure suit larry another great game:D
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Originally Posted by Scallops
Hahaha, good old cuisenaire rods [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods"]Cuisenaire rods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]Quote:
Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
Haven't seen them for nearly forty years, so I'm with Dave :(
Cuisenaire rods are not the same as Dienes blocks! Google Dienes blocks - Professor Dienes is my Grandpa....
Actually, here is a link....
http://www.infoagepub.com/index.php?...p47901ab40a27e
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I started with a microbe 16k :eek: then upgraded to a 32k then 64k. Started with a tape drive. Dad was into computers at work so I was very lucky high school student using computers when no one else really was. After this I had a very innovative for its time computer phone. Never really took off but was quite good concept and user friendly for office tasks.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperMono
But Im not nearly forty...Quote:
Originally Posted by rick130
The one I'm sitting typing at now. Althought its have an upgrade or two since I got it .
Gary