Comments on: My Second Computer http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/24/my-second-computer/ suffering under the sun Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: DLC http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/24/my-second-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-8036 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:55:26 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/my-second-computer/#comment-8036 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.

]]> By: Bob O'H http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/24/my-second-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-7973 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:38:52 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/my-second-computer/#comment-7973 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.

]]> By: Seamus http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/24/my-second-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-7970 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:01:07 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/my-second-computer/#comment-7970 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….

]]> By: Jim Lippard http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/24/my-second-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-7969 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:47:57 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/my-second-computer/#comment-7969 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

]]> By: ERV http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/10/24/my-second-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-7966 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:51:14 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/my-second-computer/#comment-7966 *giggle*

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