I believe the first computer I ever used was an original Mac.
We had one in our house for a while when I was younger. When my parents split up we all of a sudden had no computers in the house for quite a while. I feel like I would have been faster into the tech game if we'd always had computers. 😋
The cult of Steve Jobs appealed to my parents who were buddhists and part of the hippy generation. I think that's why we always were an Apple house whenever we had computers.
It was a self-assembled Apple ][+ clone with 64kB main memory (Yeah!) and a 120kB disk drive (Double yeah!). I used it for at least five years.
My final project was a Bulletin Board System written in Applesoft Basic.
IBM PCjr, with dual cartridge PLUS 5 1/4" drive. I was always jealous of my friends Commodore 64's because there were more games available for them. I remember going to Egghead Software and searching their shelves for games compatible with the PCjr.
I did try typing in programs from magazines, but they never worked and I didn't understand programming well enough at the time to be able to debug it (hours of work for nothing).
A 386 PC, running DOS and at some point Windows 3.11
Learning DOS was so great because it gave me foundations for stuff that still works the same way to this day (like the file system, directory structure, etc.)
Jack of all trades! Been coding since 14, drop it for administrative task (I was so wrong) now taking the keyboard again learning new stuff and writing new l
Don't remember the first used, but the first computer we had at home was a Cyrix 586 with 8mb in ram and an 800mb HDD. I remember the first time we started it, the win95 splash screen and the sound chimes. Wow.
It's pronounced Diane. I do data architecture, operations, and backend development. In my spare time I maintain Massive.js, a data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL.
Equal parts higher-ed IT, web dev and support; with a dash of freelance consulting thrown in for good measure. (Oct/19: Seeking change of pace. Not afraid to take a step back in order to move ahead!)
then in 1989 I had 3 Atari TT030s' one of which was still working about 8 years ago where I would flesh out things quickly in DynaCAD. Way way faster than anything else. Nowadays I grab old projects under NoSTalgia on a MAC, for export to Sketchup Pro. Not a fan of what Trimble are doing to that, so I may write my own CAD module for Blender.
30+ years of tech, retired from an identity intelligence company, now part-time with an insurance broker.
Dev community mod - mostly light gardening & weeding out spam :)
I'm 30 years old. Currently, I'm a Product Engineer. My first computer was a CCE(Brazilian company) computer, with a Linux distro(Satux), around 2009. Yeah, I join to TI area a little late.
Started out teaching English at Embry-Riddle. Graded 10,000 essays. Learned lesson. Became a mathematics teacher. Discovered computing. Never looked back.
Location
Houston TX
Education
Stetson University: B.A., M.A. in English; M.S. in mathematics
Returning to the tech industry after taking time off to be home with my young children.
I have been sharing what I learn on my blog https://alexnielsen.net/
The first real computer I used to work with was a PC with Intel 486 CPU and 8 megabytes of RAM and a 1 GB hard drive. The floppy drive was large and a CRT 14-inch monitor. 🤔
I believe the first computer I ever used was an original Mac.
We had one in our house for a while when I was younger. When my parents split up we all of a sudden had no computers in the house for quite a while. I feel like I would have been faster into the tech game if we'd always had computers. 😋
The cult of Steve Jobs appealed to my parents who were buddhists and part of the hippy generation. I think that's why we always were an Apple house whenever we had computers.
It was a self-assembled Apple ][+ clone with 64kB main memory (Yeah!) and a 120kB disk drive (Double yeah!). I used it for at least five years.
My final project was a Bulletin Board System written in Applesoft Basic.
IBM PCjr, with dual cartridge PLUS 5 1/4" drive. I was always jealous of my friends Commodore 64's because there were more games available for them. I remember going to Egghead Software and searching their shelves for games compatible with the PCjr.
I did try typing in programs from magazines, but they never worked and I didn't understand programming well enough at the time to be able to debug it (hours of work for nothing).
A 386 PC, running DOS and at some point Windows 3.11
Learning DOS was so great because it gave me foundations for stuff that still works the same way to this day (like the file system, directory structure, etc.)
Don't remember the first used, but the first computer we had at home was a Cyrix 586 with 8mb in ram and an 800mb HDD. I remember the first time we started it, the win95 splash screen and the sound chimes. Wow.
Celeron, 128 MB of RAM with 60 GB Hard Disk Space with floppy disk :)
An IBM clone with a 5 1/4" floppy drive and CGA graphics. Four whole colors!
Pentium III, 128 MB of RAM with 60 GB Hard Disk Space.
Probably the Binatone TV Master Mk IV - but I guess that was more of a games console. First real home computer was a ZX Spectrum 48K
ZX81
amiga 500
1987 - Atari STFM
then in 1989 I had 3 Atari TT030s' one of which was still working about 8 years ago where I would flesh out things quickly in DynaCAD. Way way faster than anything else. Nowadays I grab old projects under NoSTalgia on a MAC, for export to Sketchup Pro. Not a fan of what Trimble are doing to that, so I may write my own CAD module for Blender.
Commodore Pet, in 1978 while on a summer camp between primary and secondary school :)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET
A Commodore 64!
Pentium ii
I'm 30 years old. Currently, I'm a Product Engineer. My first computer was a CCE(Brazilian company) computer, with a Linux distro(Satux), around 2009. Yeah, I join to TI area a little late.
First computer ever used was an old Compaq with a Celeron CPU and maybe 512mb of ram. It ran minesweeper pretty well.
Apple II+
a MSX2, 128 kB RAM and an (external) cassette tape for storage!
playing with Basic
A Commodore VIC-20 with a Datasette drive. Hours and hours of typing code from magazines...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_series
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II
mariowiki.com/Donkey_Kong_(Game_%2...
Maybe these, it is hard to remember, I was drunk. 😵
NES
PDP-11.
An 8K IBM 1401; Autocoder (assembler with macros: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocoder) and a 27-pass (tape) Fortran compiler (youtube.com/watch?v=uFQ3sajIdaM).
ZX Spectrum +2
Commodore VIC 20 :)
Commodore 64
Pentium III 850 mHz, 128MB Ram, 40GB HDD, 16MB onboard VGA
The first computer I ever really used was a brand new TRS-80 that my dad bought.
Atari 800
oldcomputers.net/atari800.html
ZX81.
The first real computer I used to work with was a PC with Intel 486 CPU and 8 megabytes of RAM and a 1 GB hard drive. The floppy drive was large and a CRT 14-inch monitor. 🤔
The first one was a Macintosh.
TI Ḿy Little Professor.