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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 19, 2009 - 06:04am PT
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Too funny, Hooblie!
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Jul 19, 2009 - 08:41am PT
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DEC PDP-11/23 running RT11.
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ec
climber
ca
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Jul 19, 2009 - 10:12am PT
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a used Macintosh Plus
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the Fet
Supercaliyosemistic climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Jul 19, 2009 - 11:18am PT
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Circa 1980:
Rented an Atari 400 for a month. Didn't like the membrane keyboard.
"Upgraded" to a TI994A. I still remember being amazed that I wrote a program, saved it to an old tape recorder, loaded it back onto the computer and it worked. But mostly played "Hunt the Wumpus".
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Wes Allen
Boulder climber
KY
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Jul 19, 2009 - 11:59am PT
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C-64 was first.
Worked on a bunch of PC's and Macs, just didn't own one. (8088-386dx2, mac plus - quadra 950)
mac classic
then 2vx
LC4
powerbook 145b (black and white!)
powerbook 165c
several pc' that I built (sometimes two or three running at a time)
Dell laptop (kinda pos)
Dell laptop (pos)
Powerbook g4
1st gen macbook pro
iMac g5
currently the last non unibody macbook pro
next? Probably Mac Pro
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Jul 19, 2009 - 12:06pm PT
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hey werner... you first.
anyone ever been in Werner's office?
LoL!!!1166
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Jul 19, 2009 - 01:07pm PT
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wow hoobie, did you ever know a guy named rich zenkere?
maybe a detwillier or a sandhagan?
mrs myers?
mrs gusman
miss kanogeris?
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Chinchen
climber
Flagstaff?
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Jul 19, 2009 - 01:21pm PT
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Apple IIe. 1984 Christmas I think. I was programming games in basic when I was 10. I should have stuck with that.....
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Jul 19, 2009 - 02:59pm PT
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1984, A Mac SE with a big ol honkin 20 MB hard drive and 245 KB of RAM!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Jul 19, 2009 - 05:09pm PT
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MacPlus with 512k and no hard drive = $1650
Later shopped hard and bought a 130 meg hard drive = $1300
Later upgraded to a better mac and shelled out $655 extra for 64 megs of Ram
Unfortunately, the cheaper computers get, the less money I have to spend on them.
I really feel sorry for those guys who spend $250,000 on a Fairlight synthesizer whose features could have their asses kicked and more for a $1000 software package now.
Or guys who spent $100,000+ on betacam video cameras.
Technology, giveth and taketh away
Peace
Karl
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doktor_g
Social climber
Mt Shasta, CA
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Jul 19, 2009 - 05:56pm PT
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The year was 1985 and it was a beige Commodore 64. 64K RAM!!!!
I even bought a 'Datasette!'
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
10 PRINT "Hello World!"
20 GOTO 10
30 END
>>Run
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Jul 19, 2009 - 06:06pm PT
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Started out on punchcards and Fortran on the PDP-11/70.
First "personal" computer was this one (1982/83):
Wish I had a photo of it... I peeled off the cover and wired in a surplus keyboard with bright yellow and orange keys that I got from Jameco.
From there, I grad-ee-ated to the Trash-80's, Commodore 64, then the IBM 360's
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Jul 19, 2009 - 08:19pm PT
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Yur all a bunch of Uber-geeks. You're all refugees from the origins or Rec.climbing ain't cha'?
I do remember in my first years of college feeding punch cards with data on them into a machine the size of a refrigerator.
But when I first heard of a guy owning his own computer in 1980 or so, I thought "WTF, what do you do with a computer?"
peace
karl
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MisterE
Trad climber
One Step Beyond!
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2009 - 08:32pm PT
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I'm closer to the Jingy end of technological discovery -
The first computer I actually owned was clunky desktop PC a friend gave me when he updated to a lap-top in 2000.
I had not even used a computer until two years prior, when I was on staff at Patch Adams' Gesundheit Institute.
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rmsusa
Trad climber
Boulder
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Jul 19, 2009 - 10:19pm PT
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Gads! I was working with supercomputers, building climate models at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. One of the guys had a wife who ran a couple of restaurants. They hired me to put together a payroll program for them, so I bought a couple of Intertec Superbrains (I called them Birdbrains) and wrote one in Basic. Z80, 32K main memory, that I upgraded to 64K for 250 bucks. 24 x 80 character display, two 120K floppies. It ran CP/M. There was a compiled basic available for it, as well as SuperCalc and WordStar. This was 1979.
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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Jul 19, 2009 - 10:30pm PT
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TI-994A. 16k memory. $300. Computed e to 100 decimal places in BASIC.
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storer
Trad climber
Golden, Colorado
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Jul 19, 2009 - 10:35pm PT
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DEC PDP-8. Boot up with toggles then paper tape RIM loader, c1970.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Jul 19, 2009 - 10:40pm PT
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The first one I owned was a used Mac in about 1994. The cool thing about it was it had sound bites. Press an icon and it would have different few-second sounds. My most often used one was a Homer Simpson sounding one that said "Reee Laxxxxx."
Yep, that and word processing was about all that thing could do, and yet I played on it constantly. "Reee Laxxxxx......"
The first one I ever touched was in tech school, about 1985. Floppy disks and DOS. I could NOT keep all those stupid code things straight and was often frustrated. One day the teacher said "Terrie, the computer does not respond to you hitting it."
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