Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Larry Sheldon Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 05:40:37 -0500 Organization: Yeah, right. Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <5ujesd-n64.ln1@raspberry.therandymon.com> <87d1ca4zxm.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <20170418201052.d19c3279d4199af3d8e1941f@eircom.net> <87fuh5v6qh.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87d1c87mcz.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Mpk26aDWmGGxXT8sOhBqdwRIq1G79Fw4iAnpTW0wTyb+vpNyDf Cancel-Lock: sha1:u0AjNU6i7rvcMD4tuUg85WSWMjE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 In-Reply-To: <87d1c87mcz.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:13487 alt.folklore.computers:179277 On 4/19/2017 04:55, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Robert Swindells : > >> On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:46:46 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> >>> Ok, all this hardware. What did you do with it? > > (Nobody has yet offered any responses. Were the home computers just > paperweights?) My first was an XTish clone bought from an Iranian (I think, might have been an Indian) operating out of a store-used-as-a-factory in the Hillsdale Shopping Center. It had the standare stuff, plus an outrageiously huge 20 megabyte drive and a collection of add-on boards to emulate a UTS 20, or a TTY 28. >>> I bought an Atari 520ST. A big disappointment. You couldn't do >>> anything with it. It came with the lamest imaginable Basic >>> interpreter and a Logo turtle. I joined a local Atari club, but >>> nobody was interested in programming so I quit. >> >> The Atari ST had several good free C compilers for it, you could write >> whatever software you wanted. > > Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of that and wouldn't have known where to > look for them. All I saw was a catalog of pricey software I couldn't > afford. And besides, I wanted to *create* software, not *buy* it. > > I did use the builtin Basic to create an 68000 assembler. An arduous > task with the idiotic "IDE." I still remember that project as one of my > best summer vacations. Too bad I never had an opportunity to build > anything with my assembler; the first choice would have been an > assembler written in assembly language. -- quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Juvenal