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My Second Computer
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October 24, 2009 at 5:51 pm
*giggle*
October 24, 2009 at 6:47 pm
My first “computer” was a dumb terminal, a Control Data Corporation 713 monstrosity, that I used to access mainframes over a telephone line, initially at 300 baud.
But I was using emacs back then with that terminal, and here’s the proof:
http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/source/ldd_listings/unb_2/cdc713.ctl.list
October 24, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Aaah..there she is!
So much better than the Vic 20 we had at home! 3.5k ram….what a monster!!
I was always so jealous of the superior graphics that 64k allowed!!
I remember the hours I spent typing in code from magazines..but the games never worked!! I could type “poke” in about 0.5 seconds….
Did you not also have a ZX Spectrum? or was that after the Commodore 64? I seem to recall bits of entrails between the ZX81 and the spectrum floating about, and explanations on the finer points of assembly language vs machine code….
October 25, 2009 at 1:38 am
Bloody hell, that was my second computer too (after a ZX81).
Well, actually we had a Dragon 32 for a short time, but we lost too many mice in it.
October 30, 2009 at 6:55 am
yeah, my friend Bob had one of those.
I couldn’t afford it. Later on I would wind up with an IBM-Clone intel 386/25 . I thought it screamed.
I bought it despite really wanting an Amiga 1000.