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MisterE
Trad climber
One Step Beyond!
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 18, 2009 - 11:41pm PT
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When and what kind?
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Jul 18, 2009 - 11:47pm PT
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IBM PC Junior with the Screaming 8088 along with a Princeton Graphics color monitor I bought from some Middle Eastern guy at a unmarked industrial building in Northridge. Of course by color - I mean the text could be green or the text could be orange.
As for the year - had to be late 84 or early 85.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jul 18, 2009 - 11:48pm PT
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Commodore-64
Delivered a paper on using them for factory automation to the local American Ceramic Society way back when.
Got an interview offer from 3M after. Didn't go for it.
Developed my own electrical estimating program for may contracting business later. My wife did the books on one.
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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Jul 18, 2009 - 11:49pm PT
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First -
Commodore 16 - circa 1979-1980
HP 34C Calculator
Current -
MacBookPro
Dell - Linux Box
HP 64 Node GPU Cluster
Just my local resources, i.e. not counting the super computers I work on from time to time.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Jul 18, 2009 - 11:55pm PT
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Yeah - but did you have a floppy copy of Pong?
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Climbing dropout
Trad climber
Vancouver, BC
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Jul 18, 2009 - 11:58pm PT
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Well I didn't own it but I treated it like it was mine back in 1983 cutting code at Bigfoot Computing ....
Digital Equipment Corp. PDP 11/70
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Jul 19, 2009 - 12:02am PT
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2003 - '04 - iBook G4
still using this computer today.....
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Jul 19, 2009 - 12:07am PT
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Jingy was Amish?
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Jul 19, 2009 - 12:28am PT
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Commodore Vic20, upgraded to the 64 when that became available.
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WBraun
climber
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Jul 19, 2009 - 12:34am PT
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Throw your computers away and recapture your own brain ......
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jul 19, 2009 - 12:53am PT
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One of my first computers was digital - I used my fingers. The other one was pre-installed wetware, with self-programmable software.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jul 19, 2009 - 12:58am PT
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Jingy was Amish?
What do you call an amish guy with his arm up a horse's ass?
A mechanic.
Edit: First computer was some weird IBM thing I short-term leased for a few months around 1979 or so.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
the ground up
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Jul 19, 2009 - 01:17am PT
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WEB TV was so ghetto , but pretty fun anyway .
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 19, 2009 - 01:27am PT
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first computer I ever programmed...
IBM 1620...
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Jul 19, 2009 - 01:39am PT
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I'm with warner!
use Ur cell Phone!
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apogee
climber
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Jul 19, 2009 - 01:45am PT
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Jul 19, 2009 - 02:46am PT
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in 1963 they installed cables from stanford university to Grant Elementary School in Los Altos, the PhD handling the program was named Mr German.
real cool dude, way ahead of his time.
the 4,5 and 6th graders all had IBM selrctronics wired into the server at stanford.
it spat out automated math tests with a 10 second timer on each one, with a repeat of the question after the first timeout.
people loved that thing, you could enter the answer before the ball stopped, as it had to retrace once for some weird reason.
so a perfect score with the fastest possible time, day after day, was what the buzz was about.
it was a very effective teaching tool, even the slackers got into it.
plus, you had 5 minutes alone in the closet.
you could just let the machine run and get a zero while you rub one out.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Jul 19, 2009 - 02:59am PT
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i will be a SOB, it is Mr Jerman, and not 1963, but 1965:
the sh#t you find on the net:
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:iMPsGB3V8eIJ:suppes-corpus.stanford.edu/techreports/IMSSS_83.pdf+grant+elementary+teletype+machine&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
dang, memory like a steel trap:
"As each student took his turn, the machine printed out "please type
your name." The student spelled his name by typing, using the hunt-and-
peck method for the most part.
If his name was incorrectly spelled, he
was informed "This name is not on the student list, try again.
Please
type your name." A proper entry set the program in operation and the
first problem was printed out, leaving a blank for the correct response.
The machine was programmed to position itself at the blank so as to have
the response properly placed.
A correct response was reinforced by the
appearance of the next problem. An incorrect response was indicated by
the word "wrong" being typed out and the problem itself being repeated.
A second error on the same problem was followed by the message "wrong,
the answer is
," the correct answer being displayed.
The problem
itself was then given once more to allow for a correction response.
An
error on the correccion response would cause the previous message to
reappear. The next problem would then be presented.
A 10-second time
limit per response was set.
If a response was not given before 10 seconds..."
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 19, 2009 - 05:19am PT
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First model Mac, 6 mhz, no hardrive, each 3.5 inch disk had a 35k OS on it.
I still have it, and it still runs. Who is up for a game of Mouse Stampede™?
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hooblie
climber
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Jul 19, 2009 - 05:20am PT
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hey, i went to grant school till 5th grade in '61-'62. i do remember "new math" which we called SMSG for stanford math study group, and "logic" class en mass in the cafeteria. i had a microscope, chemistry set and a very nice slide rule. plus the summit of black mountain under my 10 year old belt.
in jr. high, we went to an evening school and i got my novice class "ham radio" licence, WN6SDL banging 75 watts of morse code as fas as costa rica.
the divided drawers of my rock collection had room enough for spare vacuum tubes. a seven transistor am radio was a marvel indeed.
Woz was my model of a nerd, one class ahead of me at homestead high, and his pocket protector brought the genre to my attention. strange looking guy and i'm proud to say i passed up the opportunity to haze him though i witnessed some of it, causing me misgivings for not sticking up for him.
at UC Santa Cruz, in '69 i was in the earth science department, though i poked my head into a few classes in what was mysteriously called the department of "information science" but that was enough to satisfy my curiosity. i was dreaming of glaciers, flying overhead thru the stereoscope.
by then we were highballing it to the valley in a '55 chevy wagon with a couple el cap vets, and watching the construction of the bookstore. cranes were swinging heavy timberframe into place, and alaska was booming. corporate disdain and data phobia set in... hell the shift key still whips my ass.
first computer rather unique, an 8086 xt, one piece module with built in fax/scan, answer/phone, 10" b&w touchscreen display, 640k, 40mb, a canon
looking back, the low angle apron of the techno wave drove me and my analog onto rocky, blue collar shoals just as the cool kids dropped in, layed a bottom turn across my corduroy knickers, and shot upface to spank the silicon lip. i'm still digging sand outta splitters and patchin' up my carhart knees
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