OT - What was your very first computer?

Mine was the Atari 400, then the 800, then the Atari ST, then on to the PC...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_st

Scott

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Commodore Vic 20. Still got it!! i doubt it will run Sonar 8.0, but grooves on Cosmic Crunchers...

Regards,

ORIGINAL: info@tomflair.com

as far as i know - up today the st has the tightest and fastes midi interface cos its sort of directly connected to the powerful 8mhz motorola 6800 - great times back then


cheers

Yeah Ive heard the Atari MIDI was/is the best..

Relating to that... After the old man got rid of the Microbee, he moved on to Amiga's.
Amiga 500, 1500, 2000..

I still think that Amiga were far in front of any other OS/Computer at that time with both OS and graphics!!
The Amiga graphics kicked ass..

ORIGINAL: Stevvy McMantooth
amiga 1000

this thing was great!

+1

Commodore 64

I actually worked for about 9 months at a software startup that targeted C64, Vic 20's, TRS 80, Atari and the Texas Instruments low end consumer computers

We used C64's as our development machines

SID chips -- still have their fans

I remember programming it to play "in the hall of the mountain king"

I programmed my C64 to play everything in the minimalist, layered, random style of Terry Riley's 'In C'

Commodore 64, Dr T's KCS. Then on to an Amiga, then a Mac (Studio Vision), now PC/Sonar.

TRS80, Thanks Plainfaced you have just made me feel old.
Man if you could have all the young whipper snappers here have to go back and learn how to use one of those first computers, I bet they wouldn't complain about Software now. I remember in college we had to input the data by punch cards, and wait for it to compile hours later and hope you didn't have a runtime error and have to start all over.

Ed

I started on a Sinclair ZX81 with 1K RAM (Still have it!), then a 128k Mac (bought June 1984, I still have it!).

I've used most everything in the following years.

First was a BBC Model B.

I worked for CPU Ltd which owned and ran Acorn Computers and did some design revison work on the main board for this machine.

Then to an Amiga 500, with Dr. T's KCS Sequencing software.

Hey makes me wonder are there any youngsters on the forum?



Ed

The nice thing about the Motorolla 6502 (C64, Apple IIe, etc.) was that you could literally write out an entire assembly language program on paper and have it be close to 100% correct the first time... (assuming you knew what you were doing, of course...)

I started with the C64, until I spliced a 5-pin DIN cable with a stereo RCA cable and tried to connect the composite output to my parent's VCR... poof! (Yes, I wired the 5-pin connectors backwards... hard lesson #1 in reading a schematic). It would have cost more to fix the thing than to buy a new one, so I saved my pennies over the summer and bought an Amiga 500 with 512K expansion... dual floppy heaven!

ORIGINAL: daveny5

Apple IIe

+ 1. I thought it was mind-blowingly complex

http://oldcomputers.net/atari800.html

ORIGINAL: JoZoB

Yamaha CX5M ca. 1985



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I found one of those on the street once.. No keyboard, or monitor..
Took it home.. Was in the bin an hour later..

Atari 800 (Star Raiders Rules!)

Atari ST (I used a program called Notator from eMagic)

386 (Don't remember the clock speed but I did install a math coprocessor!)

Pentium 90mHZ

Pentium 2 1gHz

Pentium 4 2Ghz

Core 2 E6600

Core 2 Q6600