06-09-2011, 01:52 PM | #29 |
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I still have my Colecovision........the color went out on it though. I thought about having it repaired, but it just sits in a box in the basement.
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06-09-2011, 02:05 PM | #30 |
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My first was a Vic 20....
tape drive....
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06-09-2011, 02:37 PM | #31 |
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Tape drives! Sweet good times.
My friend had a Smith Corona (I think) word processor that stored its data on what looked like audio cassettes. Its amazing the fact that my little Motorola Droid makes those things look like a tablet and chisel.
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06-09-2011, 07:26 PM | #32 |
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You haven't lived till you've waited 30 min's to load a program on a TI-99 4a via cassette only for it to have an error. lol
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06-10-2011, 02:15 AM | #33 | |
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06-10-2011, 01:35 PM | #34 |
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Stuff like that makes programmers form back in the day, heroes lol
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06-10-2011, 02:36 PM | #35 |
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Reading this thread brought back some memories. My first computer was a Coleco Adam. It came with a couple games and a built in word processor, but I had more fun teaching myself how to write in BASIC. I would make my own war simulation games using simple random number commands to determine battle outcomes.
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06-10-2011, 09:36 PM | #36 |
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OK...my goal here is to out-nerd every single one of you...
My first experience with a computer was in 3rd grade when we were given punch cards, told to punch out simple arithmetric problems using some codes that were given to us. We got back a printout showing what we punched, and it had computed answers. Though we had simple calculators in the 1970's, my first experience "programming" came when my dad bought an HP-67 in 1976. It was a RPN calculator, and was programmable, using magnetic strips to store those programs. Some programs were used to calculate latitude/longitude based off of sun/moon/star sightings, others used for tides, and he even had a game which was a lunar lander program in which you had to touch down softly by burning a limited amount of fuel. Though I had a friend that got an Apple ][ when they first came out, my first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1 that I used in college in 1981-1983. I ended up leaving college and buying my first Apple ][e shortly after that. Later, I got an Apple ][c. I eventually got an Macintosh Plus and used that for quite a while. Then came a 286, a 386, a 486 and pretty much a PC computer every 2-3 years of the latest model. Of my computers, I've built 5 of my own, I've purchased 3 from Falcon Northwest, and I've also owned a Mac Centris 650, Mac G5 Tower (Motorola), and my current Macbook Pro 17". I work in IT, so you could say that my life is computers...for good or bad.
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06-10-2011, 09:38 PM | #37 |
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Or have your college roommate record music over a TRS-80 program that I'd been working on for 3-4 months.
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06-10-2011, 10:16 PM | #38 |
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You were a nerd... before nerds! NERD!!
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06-10-2011, 10:41 PM | #39 |
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I was a nerd in spirit, but I was also a jock (I played Strong Safety in football) and a stoner.
Seriously, did I look like a nerd?
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06-10-2011, 11:28 PM | #40 |
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LOL. My 'cover-up' was skateboarding and punk music!!
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06-11-2011, 12:26 AM | #41 |
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I will say this. I took the nerd test, and almost aced it. I'm such a nerd, I had to re-take the test to make sure I scored perfect.
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06-22-2011, 06:54 PM | #42 |
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Just wanted to post that I've built the computer I described and keeping the old Creative card was a bad choice. Yes it does work, but a lot of the features don't work with Win 7 64 bit, and so it doesn't work the same (ie the remote control has no win 7 driver so it doesn't work). I'm going to leave it in for now but eventually get something else that has what I want.
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