Comments on: My First Computer http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/ suffering under the sun Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: DLC http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-8035 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:50:23 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/#comment-8035 Hm. I used a Timex-Sinclair and an Atari 400. Talk about primitive. The cool thing about the Z-80 chip series was they were just about as rugged as a tank.
had to be, in fact, because they were also used for fire control computers on some military hardware.

]]> By: John M. Lynch http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-8030 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:39:36 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/#comment-8030 Hence Cera likes bees? :)

]]> By: Cera Lawrence http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-8029 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:29:02 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/#comment-8029 I had the Atari ST when I was 9. I played a spelling bee game and a math game, and sort of tried to learn how to use Logo.

]]> By: Crudely Wrott http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-7994 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:36:40 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/#comment-7994 Hoo Haa! I bought TS100 in a department store for $199.99. The 16K memory module set me back another hundred. It wobbled badly but a book of matches used as a wedge between the console and the module proved serviceable. As long as I didn’t bump it.

I had a lot of fun plotting hypotrochoids and playing Mazogs.

Remember “Synch” magazine? Lists of code you could actually type in and run. Then diddle with.

Such warm memories . . .

And in 2000 I found one in a second hand store, with original packaging and manual priced at $5.00. If only I could remember where I put it . . .

]]> By: Wes http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-7955 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:18:36 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/#comment-7955 Back when I was just a wee little bastard in 1984, we had an Atari 400 home computer:

http://oldcomputers.net/atari400.html

I loved that thing. It could play all the old 8 bit Atari games, plus my dad used it to teach me how to spell words.

]]> By: Joel http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-7954 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:03:47 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/#comment-7954 Luxury! My first computer couldn’t even output data to tape. We had to copy the whole program from the magazine every time.

Well, actually, it probably could, but my parents hadn’t shelled out for that component.

]]> By: Bob O'H http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-7952 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:46:43 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/#comment-7952 Did you have the 16K ram expansion pack too? With the wobble?

]]> By: John M. Lynch http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-7951 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:38:08 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/#comment-7951 Ah, you remember, don’t you.

]]> By: Seamus http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-7950 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:43:32 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/my-first-computer/#comment-7950 Next up…the Commodore 64, and the joystick buster that was Daley Thompsons decathlon…

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