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Old 11-19-2009
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Originally Posted by pludi
The first computer I owned was an Intel Pentium at 90 Mhz (with F0 0F bug).
I was running an ad hoc web site for the Linux Benchmarks at that time and recall the 486 to Pentium transition Smilie

That is really cool that the first computer you owned was a Pentium. What a way to start !
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Old 11-19-2009
My first was a Commodore PET, followed by some other Commodore, I think perhaps a 128. All hand me downs from father. Next came a Rainbow and then a VAXmate (father had moved to working for DEC). PC's or clones followed until college.
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Old 11-19-2009
My first "computer" was a Casio FX-702P with is 2KB or RAM quickly followed by an Oric 1 and a larger 48 KB.
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Old 11-20-2009
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Originally Posted by Neo
I was running an ad hoc web site for the Linux Benchmarks at that time and recall the 486 to Pentium transition Smilie

That is really cool that the first computer you owned was a Pentium. What a way to start !

I remember the blazing speed of the first Netware servers I ever installed, Pentium D4 100mhz..... the fastest machines in the company.. Smilie
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Old 11-20-2009
Like probably a lot of my generation, I grew up playing around with a Commodore 64. But it was pretty useless for anything except games. The real computer, an IBM PC kept in a locked room in the basement, was too expensive for them to dare letting me play with it, given my habit of dismantling everything I touched. (A habit I still have, fed regularly by my computer maintenance work. I'm just a lot better at putting things back together now. Smilie)

My first real computer was an IBM PC 80286-12 assembled from the detritus of old upgrades to the "main" computer. It had DOS, QBASIC, IBM Writing Assistant(anyone remember that?) and enough storage to hold thousands of handwritten programs. I continuously upgraded it all the way from grade school, through high school, and by the time I dropped out of college to pursue work experience it was a dual Opteron running Gentoo Linux.

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Old 11-20-2009
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Like probably a lot of my generation, I grew up playing around with a Commodore 64. But it was pretty useless for anything except games.
Not for me.... .I wrote an entire geo-triangulation, distance and bearing (direction) program on the C64 (in Basic) that we used when we downloaded coordinates from our survey gear.

At the time, most small survey companies did not have these type of small computer programs and we won considerable business (back then) for having "advanced computing" capabilities.

Then, just like now, the younger generation is always finding new innovative ways to use the latest technology. Today, the C64 looks lame compared to modern computers, but back then, it was very cool and very useful for small business (or at least in our small land survey company).

We did finally port the code (well, "we" means me) to the TRS 80 because, as you say, the C64 not not an ideal business computer. However, I don't agree it was only good for games and useless otherwise... at least not for our young innovative land survey company..... we even had a fancy name that distinguished us from more traditional companies because we used small computers like the C64 and TRS 80, wrote our own software, and could therefore save our clients $$$.

The name of that legacy company was..... Microsurvey

We named it Microsurvey because we used "microcomputers"... and at the time, that was a very new and innovative term.
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Old 11-20-2009
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Originally Posted by Neo
Not for me.... .I wrote an entire geo-triangulation, distance and bearing (direction) program on the C64 (in Basic) that we used when we downloaded coordinates from our survey gear.
Very creative use of it. How did you get over the I/O hurdle? I never did find working instructions for saving BASIC programs to disk; lots that didn't work, but none that did, and none that even explained what they were even trying to do... It stymied me for years. It's only now, with access to the modern internet, that I've found out why files on the Commodore were so strange: Disk I/O was neither raw, nor handled by the BIOS, Commodore had it's own unique solution. Drives were their own self-contained computers that communicated with the C64 in a weird and proprietary mini-language that was passed to it from BASIC I/O statements nearly raw.

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