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It's allive!! #retrocomputing #p166 #Zenith #MagnarEikeland #myfirstcomputer

There are times when I'm baffled by how digital novice some so-called "digital natives" are.

It's not their fault, though, but our new intern described himself as "very good with computers".

Nope.

It started with "where is the browser ?"
me: "On the Taskbar, Firefox, what do you use?""
intern: "Don't know, it's from google."

me: "I set up a network folder for you, just move your files to y:\[his name]"
intern: "Move files?"

me: "You'll need a code editor, just instal VS-Code."
intern: "What? I can't find it on steam."

Again, it's not his fault. But one should assume .... one should not.

I'm spending the next few hours teaching him the BASICS of using a computer. I may even let him set up his own Linux.

And we haven't even started "coding" yet.

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Let’s play “The first computer I used and/or wrote software for”.

The first computer I remember seeing was at a county fair in the back of a tractor trailer. They entered your birthday and it spit out your horoscope on a punch card. There were lots of blinky lights. But I seriously doubt there was actually a computer in there. :)

Technically the first computer I used was a CDC Cyber at UMASS Amherst. It was 1972 and I was in 6th grade. My father was spending a semester there to work on his PhD (he ended up being ABD), and so for a semester I was going to UMASS Amherst’s experimental teaching school, which was pretty amazing. The assignment was to enter some APL code (from a printout) on a teletype, and then it would print out a Christmas tree. I can honestly state that my first piece of software ran the first time with no errors. :)

Then in 1975/1976 I was at a private high school, I learned BASIC as part of freshman algebra. That was using a remote connection to Dartmouth, I presume to Dartmouth’s DTSS system (which I later accessed remotely in college too).

But really, the first computer I spent time on and actually wrote some software for was in 1976 (back in public school). It was a brand new school and they’d gotten funding for a computer. It was an HP9830A, basically a glorified calculator that ran BASIC. It probably cost around $6000, which was horrifically large amount for them to invest. You were supposed to use it only under supervision, but only one teacher had experience with it, and I already knew BASIC, so I had free rein. I wrote a Blackjack program for it. It had a single line, 32 character LED display, and you stored programs on audio cassette tapes. There was no way for it to generate random number seeds, so I had to prompt the user for a seed, or else they’d always get the same cards.

http://madrona.ca/e/HP9830/index.html

The first computer I owned was an Apple // clone called the MicroProfessor.

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Apple IIc was my first computer!

Just had one of those conversations with my son where I blew his mind talking about how a #ZX-81 worked, as in:

No sound.
No OS, apart from a basic interpreter.
No IDE.
1K Of RAM
No GUI, mouse.
No passwords, encryption.
Saving to tape.

I think I’d thoroughly depressed him by the time I’d finished talking!

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@ClarusPlusPlus

This was #MyFirstComputer too!!

#MyFirstComputer expierence wasn't the games, although that's what i wanted to do, gaming on the #c64.It was the intros linked in front of them by the crackers. I had absolutely no idea what was going on there. I grasped they greeted each other in the scrolltexts, and over time the names became more familiar. Colorful animations and great music, for no apparent reason!, adresses, always postboxes, from all over europe. Why? It was like glimpsing curiously into the coolest club on earth.

My first home computer with a massive 1K of memory.
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#MyFirstComputer (owned) was a low-end 286 running Geoworks Ensemble. At work, however, I was using an Apple IIe and Appleworks.

Diciamo la nostra su #myfirstcomputer : @micia, il nostro fondatore, ha programmato per la prima volta su un vecchio e polveroso, quanto iconico, Commodore 64 (scroccato da un suo amico -_-"), in BASIC. Appreso studiando l'altrettanto iconico manuale e i suoi esempi.

https://issuu.com/prof.guidotti/docs/commodore64

Divertimento assicurato per ogni pomeriggio :)

#MyFirstComputer - technically my dad's first computer, but let's not split hairs. The IBM Aptiva 2144, a 486 system which originally came with Windows 3.1. By the time I used it, it'd been upgraded to Windows 95.

Our original one is long gone, unfortunately - would love to get hold of another.

(Pic source: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=58033 )

The #commodore #plus4 was #myfirstcomputer :commodore:

a blog flashback to the #Apple ][ and Ultima IV for #MyFirstComputer https://nick.zoic.org/art/journey-onward-apple-2-and-me/ #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Let's try this again...

Obviously not my pic.

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#myfirstcomputer My beloved Apple IIe, circa 1979
Only had upper case, lowercase was achieved via software

@billbaud 1) ZX81 #MyFirstComputer
2) Commodore 16
3) ZX Spectrum +3
4) Amiga 600

That doesn't look that impressive, blame my dad!