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

[Denys (VISP)]

Well, good time you had... cause i had in hands only russian clones.
Some of them was highly unreliable.
And i am very sad - there was no linux that time.

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:38:19 +0200, BashLogic wrote
> 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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