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  1. 19th November 2011, 12:10 PM #31
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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.
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    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
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    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.
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    Vic 20 1985

    Vic 20 spend hours on it. Coding was fun, tape drive loading saved code was even entertaining for the first few days waiting
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    Amstrad with cassette, Boulder dash is all I remember, how do I find an original I can play now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scallops View Post
    My first computer? My Grandpa's base 10 blocks....got them in 1968....

    Buy Invicta Base Ten Group Set (Dienes) from Junior Scholars
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    Crap....

    I remember those too....

    can we stop it with the make dave feel old threads.
    Hahaha, good old cuisenaire rods [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods"]Cuisenaire rods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

    Haven't seen them for nearly forty years, so I'm with Dave
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperMono View Post
    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
    I started with a microbe 16k 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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rick130 View Post
    Hahaha, good old cuisenaire rods Cuisenaire rods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Haven't seen them for nearly forty years, so I'm with Dave
    But Im not nearly forty...
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    The one I'm sitting typing at now. Althought its have an upgrade or two since I got it .

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