I was listening to Paul Asadoorian's podcast with Mike Poor and Ed Skoudis of IntelGuardians and SANS/GIAC (http://www.pauldotcom/2006/02/pauldodtcom_security_weekly_int.html) and the conversation came around to Mike and Ed's first computers. Mike's was an Apple IIe, Ed's a Vic 20 (purchased in 1980). This got me thinking about mine.
I can go one better...mine was a TRS80 Model 1 my Dad bought in about 1978. It was a 4K machine with a cassette tape drive. The first programming language I learned was Z80 assembler, followed shortly after by Basic. The first real program I wrote was a bad graphics version of poker dice in Basic.
Unfortunately, I remember punched cards, octal bootstraps, monochrome monitors (Volker Craig 4404's), Sigma 9's, PDP-11's , and a whole lot of other things that make me feel really old.
I would love to hear about your first.
Rick
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx
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How about an Atari 400! Such power in a little membrane keyboard - and a tape drive too! Then came the Atari 800 (and disk drive) with the BASIC cartridge and assorted emulators (OK I had a VIC-20 also :)
Hard to believe those humble beginnings would lead to that first Compaq portable and finally to the MAC / PC network I have in my house now.
Yes... I still have those first machines :)
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