[leglug-users] a bit offtopic... first computer, and rare computers u have worked

[BashLogic]

I disagree!
such topics are not of topic!  ;)

personally the first contact with a "Computer" was the amstrad back in
84-85, (prior to that i had consoles such as atari :) ) the amstrad
was nice simple and fun to use and i really liked the rubber buttons!
but to the likes to many other systems, i hated that it took ages to
load of the tape ;) ( i mean the games ;) )

in 86 i began using commodore 64 which i used for many years.
i began programming with the commodore and did all sorts of programs
up untill a point that it was i and another school mate who were
running the school lab and not the teacher :) he only knew PCs and C
language :) so a little exchange then and there was fun!
unfortunatelly at the end of the 90s i stopped programming because i
developed a nausea and vommiting reaction cause of spending most of my
time on the station, so i had to quit at that point.

i didnt do stuff untill i got my hands on a 486 in the early ninties,
so it was back to the basic ;)

later i gave up on programming and concentrated on other fields in IT.


regards
BL



On 3/1/07, Denys (VISP) <nuclearcat-lelug at nuclearcat.com> wrote:
> Hi again
>
> It is a bit off-topic, but just interesting. What was your first computer, OS?
> When u wrote first program and what language? What it was for?
> What is your first experience in networking?
>
> Mine
> )DVK-2, smth like this http://www.simo.ru/dvk-3c.jpg, equipped with 2 5'
> floppy, each floppy 360KB (first models), PDP-11 commands based CPU, 10Mhz,
> 32KB RAM
> OS RT-11SJ & RAFOS
>
> )Then most of my time i spent on UKNC, two CPU(8 & 6Mhz, different
> architectures!), it had 64KB RAM (but for user available only 56KB), second
> CPU 32KB, for user 22KB, ROM 32KB, video ram 96KB (640x288, Black & white,
> wow! :-D ) (3 pages, each 32KB). It was challenge, for some arrays to borrow
> some KB's from video RAM, cause i was not using graphics mode.  Good thing,
> this computer had "C2", which compatible with RS-232 9600, so it was possible
> later (after years) to connect it as terminal, to Linux PC.
> Photos: http://rk86.com/frolov/uknc.htm
>
> )First tasks i did on Focal(rewritten JOSS), just hello world. It was looks
> like:
> 1.05 C Commands
> 1.10 T "Hello World !" !
> 1.20 Q
> First serious program i wrote on BASIC for UKNC computer, it was graphical
> editor, which was able to reprogram matrix printer, so it was printing
> images. Sure it was simple, it is impossible to do photoshop in 56KB :-)
>
> )First computer was equipped with "star" topology network. Used it to play
> network games... on text only screens. Hehe.
>
>
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