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1. First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: Matt Murray <mattm@optonline.net>; Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:24:57 -0500; A thread from another list. Subject: First computers (GMSV) Last week we asked Good Morning Silicon Valley readers to tell us what their first computers were. The results are fascinating and, IMHO, m; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00110.html (9,875 bytes)
2. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: "Chuck" <golden1@britsys.net>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:09:09 -0500; http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/7549 559.htm First computer ~1982 HP87 console unit with yellow/black screen about the size of an index card, 8" floppy drive.; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00111.html (9,383 bytes)
3. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: "David W. James" <vnend@adelphia.net>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:20:51 -0500; Piker. I remember playing around with tape in 1962. Paper tape. Round confetti. The computer was probably an IBM 1400, the big upgrade from the 800. The programmers were trying to figure out what the; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00112.html (8,767 bytes)
4. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: "Wentzel" <greendot1@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:15:58 -0500; Jeez, that brings back memories. Working at GM's Fisher Body (remember them?) Engineering in 1968 generating/saving large rolls of punched paper tape. Bruce Old Fartz #33 (I think, or is it 34?); /html/autox/2003-12/msg00117.html (8,235 bytes)
5. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: "Jay Mitchell" <jemitchell@compuserve.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:34:15 -0600; Matt Murray wroote: Burroughs B5500, IIRC, the campus computer at Ga. Tech for programming classes. I took a course in ALGOL (anyone remember that?) back in 1970. Had to type the commands - one per c; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00118.html (8,734 bytes)
6. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: Dick Rasmussen <rasmussend@mindspring.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:29:15 -0500; What a bunch of kids. My first experience was similar to Jay's except it was in about 1965 at the University of Washington. Language used was Fortran IV. Used to walk by the on-campus nuclear reactor; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00119.html (9,403 bytes)
7. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: Pete Holsberg <pjh@mccc.edu>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:04:02 -0500 (EST); 1960 or so - Electronic Associates 231 analog computer 1962 or so -- PDP-?? (could have been a "1") 1963 -- All kinds of EA analog and hybrid computers 1970 -- PDP-8/I 197? -- single board computers; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00124.html (8,582 bytes)
8. RE: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: "Eric Salem" <eric@mail.brown911.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:17:39 -0600; Got out of Journalism School on this very day in 1989 and it took a few years to figure out what a bad idea that degree was. First home pc was an IBM 486/50 on which I taught myself Visual Basic 2 an; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00125.html (8,711 bytes)
9. RE: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: "P.Herder" <p.herder@cox.net>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:41:35 -0600; 1969 1st computer was a targeting computer for a Titan II ICBM ... paper tape in octal code. ~1984 USAF gave me a CPM machine ... 8" floppies, HUGE 10 MB hard drive ... 64K memory! CalcStar, DataStar; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00127.html (9,471 bytes)
10. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: Smokerbros@aol.com; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:56:42 -0500; 1974- Fortran WatFiv, Waited in long line to keypunch cards at UMR (Univ. Mo. @ Rolla), read cards in, and the main computer in Columbia did its thing, then some time later in the same day if you wer; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00129.html (9,015 bytes)
11. RE: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: Pete Holsberg <pjh@mccc.edu>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:46:12 -0500 (EST); Hey, I don't beat too many autocrossers! OK. My first owned machine was the IMSAI 8080 -- 256 bytes of memory and a front panel! Added 4K RAM, a Z-80 board, a terminal, eventually expanded to the ful; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00130.html (9,393 bytes)
12. RE: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: "Adamson, Ken" <KADAMSON@lifeline.net>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:48:32 -0600; You'll never guess from the list below that I'm a computer geek! I learned to write Fortran on an IBM mainframe using punchcards when I was 11, and "played" the card sorter (you could make them play; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00131.html (10,546 bytes)
13. RE: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: sami@kallio.com; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:15:30 -0700 (MST); Hmmm, is that a good reference? VAX definately had its strong points. I only worked with it shortly, side by side with UNIX and at that time VAX was much nicer to use despite the grayscale displays.; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00133.html (9,685 bytes)
14. RE: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: Pete Holsberg <pjh@mccc.edu>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:42:05 -0500 (EST); You could play music on a radio by placing it close to an S-100 bus computer and running a special BASIC program. I can recall playing the theme from Star Wars at an expo at a local mall. Pete; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00134.html (9,353 bytes)
15. RE: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: "Dave Hardy" <dave2020@mindspring.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:19:51 -0500; First computer - 1982 or so. Tandy TRS-80. I was 6 and it's only purpose was to play pong. At some point I remember writing a basic program to do addition, but programming wasn't for me. At least not; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00136.html (9,867 bytes)
16. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: "Will Kalman" <will@kalman.org>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:14:35 -0800; Music out of a radio? Now you're pulling our collective leg. :^) You could get a Commodore 1541 disk drive to sing songs by uploading a program to it's CPU that would vibrate the stepper motor in tun; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00137.html (9,946 bytes)
17. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: Pete Holsberg <pjh@mccc.edu>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:16:10 -0500 (EST); Nope. The electrons running around on the bus emit AM type radiation. All you do is make sure that the signal on the carrier has the right beeps and boops, and an AM radio will detect and play it. Pe; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00138.html (9,183 bytes)
18. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: John Lieberman <jlieberman@sport.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:17:31 -0600; I never got into the programming side, but my first computer was a Timex-Sinclair Z-80 or ZX-80 -- whatever they called it! From there, I went to a Radio Shack Trash-80 "Laptop." Next up was a 286 -; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00140.html (9,285 bytes)
19. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: John Lieberman <jlieberman@sport.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:38:40 -0600; C'mon, now, Eric! Journalism may not pay worth a crap but it's certainly a challenge. And it's paid me enough (barely!) to keep the Mini running since 1987. I've been a broadcast journalist for 30+ y; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00141.html (9,848 bytes)
20. Re: First computers, was: team.net history (score: 1): Author: "David W. James" <vnend@adelphia.net>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:25:22 -0500; I almost bought an IMSAI at one point. Dual 8" drives, woohoo!! The first one I bought was an Apple II, I mean ][, back in Aug. '79, I still have the receipt, but I sold the computer back in '80 or '; /html/autox/2003-12/msg00142.html (10,022 bytes)

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