Old farts nastalgic look back

[usmc_nam_vet]

Inside the Commodore 64 - MSN Tech & Gadgets - Slide Shows - Products - 1 1st computer was a Sinclar 8k. When this came out I started writting my own programs. This should bring back fond memories to all us over the hill bunch.

 

[sjb007]

I remember them well, although I did not own one plenty of my friends did, after seeing my friends ZX81 I went down the speccy route. I also seem to remember the clunky tape recorders that came with the 64's too.

 

[skunksmash]

lol....... my first ever machine was an ATARI XE, which i believe had a tape deck loader

& some of the finest 2D graphics on the planet

loved that rig



SK

 

[sjb007]

They were the good times lol, what others can you remember - BBC-B, Acorn Electron, Tandy TRS80, Texas TI 99, Aquarius.....

 

[Dwarf]

I well remember my first computer, back in 1983. It was a Commodore 64 and I had many hours of pleasure and enjoyment using it. Prior to that, I remember using the Commodore PET at college (this was an all-in-one unit).

 

[usmc_nam_vet]

Simpler times and for most of us happier times. Now it is what's your benchmark. How many of us remember flow charts and punch cards. We are getting up there in years. My grand kids wouldn't know what to do without their electric toys. A pair of street skates that clamped to my shoes or a barrel hoop was all I needed.

 

[.Joe]

I cut my teeth on a trash-80 (trs-80 by radio shack). It's total memory o/s + programming was 16kb. It used a tape recorder as it's "drive" and some ungodly thermal printer. I actually programmed my own games on it, since there were no software stores. And networking? lol. Yes, it predates you commodore people, and I had one of those too! My first real pc, didn't come with a hard drive, just two 5 1/4 inch floppies. When I did get a hard drive, it was a big sucker, and state of the art at 20mb! Monochrome was the monitor of choice at the time. Although software was becoming more available by this time. Yes, I guess, as far as computers are concerned, I *am* an old fart

Here's what the trs-80 looked like:

 

[Brink]

The good old days of the Commodore 64. I remember them fondly. I had two drives, the RAM extension cartridge, modem cartridge, and a million 5 1/4" floppies that my friends I made copies of to each other.

The Commodore 64 was not that bad at all for it's day.

 

[z3r010]

I started out on a zx81, but that was soon replaced with a Commodore 64. Oh the fun of waiting 30mins for a game to load from tape and learning to program in BASIC with no resources other than the user manual.

 

[echrada]

And now we cannot even wait a nano second for Broadband to get to the next page! How things have changed.

 

[roy69]

They were the good times lol, what others can you remember - BBC-B, Acorn Electron, Tandy TRS80, Texas TI 99, Aquarius.....

I got a TI99/4A. I wrote to the ti994a magazine and got a tech manual. It was the size of a telephone directory.
I wrote a SMALL program in assembly on reseting the speech chip to make the effect of scrating a record.
At the time it was cutting edge.
Looking back I wish it was as simple as that.