Topic: post your very first computer ITT
+Elmer Fudd !DIIsquackU — 12.8 years ago #28,890
this is an actual photo of mine/ours+Rapeculture !saAqdaazn2 — 12.8 years ago, 3 minutes later[T] [B] #336,402
Mine was a commodore vic 20. We used to play Frogger and Tricky Bricky·Elmer Fudd !DIIsquackU (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 52 seconds later, 3 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #336,403
@previous (Rapeculture !saAqdaazn2)
they renamed it to VC20 in germany cause VIC sounds like fick which means fuck
they renamed it to VC20 in germany cause VIC sounds like fick which means fuck
+ !NoGoD1GamE — 12.8 years ago, 5 minutes later, 9 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #336,410
Atari 520ST
·Elmer Fudd !DIIsquackU (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 22 minutes later, 32 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #336,420
+Syntax — 12.8 years ago, 5 minutes later, 37 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #336,421
@336,403 (Elmer Fudd !DIIsquackU)Given I was born almost b4 God - My first was as in Pic a Norden Bombsight which was mechanical and was loaded with some really fun stuff - Full Gyro and rotating prism - lots of optical parts - Got it working but not so good for the Trig I was trying to solve because I never did a good job interfacing it with the Automatic Pilot which is a very separate system. Major fun and learned a lot considering I had to make a AC 400 Cycle power supply to boot it all up.
Could not find a pic to show on my first hobby Boolean solving mechanical computer which I got from Scientific American mag - Was disks and pins and mass of wires to pins to disks.
Did solve basic Boolean by turning one disk at a time and I think it was 6 disks total.
Then Atari and a Commodore - then of course the infamous Apple II
But NOTHING measured up to the IBM 360 I had daily use of at Hughes Malibu Research labs - Hughes had a group elsewhere that was building magnetic core memories for a military project and they put on a 2nd shift to build more memory for the IBM cause IBM was in deep backlog on shipping added memory - I think the basic IBM we had was maybe 8Megs - but damn it was reliable never once crashed no glitches
er on 2nd thought I learned 1st hand about hanging chads cause the 360 - to program anything you put YOUR PROGRAM on 80 column punch cards and learned to inspect each one on the back side for chads.
AND AND that hobby Norden experience payed off years later when I spent years in Radar Imaging R&D - Bits of Norden kept coming back to me for updated insertion and mates wood say where the hell did you ever come up with that ideal and just had to laff n laff.
+Anonymous E — 12.8 years ago, 56 seconds later, 38 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #336,422
Sinclair Spectrum +2. You loaded games into a cassette player and got a black screen with screaming yellow and blue lines around it while the game loaded. Good times, kids today don't know what they missed.
· !NoGoD1GamE — 12.8 years ago, 6 minutes later, 44 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #336,423
Who can whistle 2400 baud?
·Syntax — 12.8 years ago, 9 minutes later, 54 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #336,426
@previous (!NoGoD1GamE)
First modem I used which was home made and adapted from my Ham teletype stuff was a stunning
300 bit/s. Then again the Teletype machines could only do about 65 words per minute.
And back then there were people who could whistle the tones to do free long distance on the then Bell analog system. Me I did it was tone generators to play with Bell -
First modem I used which was home made and adapted from my Ham teletype stuff was a stunning
300 bit/s. Then again the Teletype machines could only do about 65 words per minute.
And back then there were people who could whistle the tones to do free long distance on the then Bell analog system. Me I did it was tone generators to play with Bell -
+Syntax — 12.8 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #336,431
@336,421 (Syntax )
@previous (Syntax )
Disrygard that. Eye sucky suck suck thee cocky cock cocks re: bye the sea sea sea.
@previous (Syntax )
Disrygard that. Eye sucky suck suck thee cocky cock cocks re: bye the sea sea sea.
+Morbid !vbsvhaneDY — 12.8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #336,433
+Syntax — 12.8 years ago, 10 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #336,434
+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 12.8 years ago, 27 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #336,447
I have the shell of our PCpositive 486 in the basement, but I think our first was a Commodore or Vic. Something that ran through a television for display.
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