First computers

[NotAllThere]

Zx80, zx81, spectrum 16, spectrum 48, spectrum 128, Sinclair QL. Then when the Sinclair products dried up, forced to get an IBM XT. Then 286. Then 386 with 386slow to enable me to still play my 286 games.

Coding learned from Input Magazine.

[Zippy]

BBC Model B after that, then discovered video games (Elite) and decided coding was too much like hard work. A view reinforced when I got to Uni and did a CIS degree.

I may have mentiond this before but I was Elite.
Coding isn't hard It's all the other shit: around it

[suityou01]

Drooooooooooooooool.

Thanks NAT.

[SimonMac]

Amstrad CPC 464 (but I'm younger than most of you lot)

[Gittins Gal]

I may have mentiond this before but I was Elite.
Coding isn't hard It's all the other tulip around it

I may have mentiond this before but I was Elite.
Coding isn't hard It's all the other tulip around it

Geek!

Confession time. I never spent hours of my misspent youth in an attic room pounding away on the keyboard of a zx spectrum.

In fact I remember being at junior school and there was a lot of excitement over a computer that somebody was going to bring in to show us all.

I remember them wheeling this huge white contraption that looked like a washing machine in on a trolley. They guy twiddled a few knobs, pressed a few buttons and then came the piece de resistance. It spat out 3 feet of ticket tape. Bearing in mind we'd all just seen 2001 where the computer talked, I wasn't impressed and didn't really think being a computer programmer was going to be the thing for me.

No, I'm a self confessed charlatan. I did one of those M.Sc. conversion courses - it was either that or be a teacher.

[TestMangler]

Atari 520 ST for it's MIDI capability.

I commercially programmed MIDI files for a few years and still do them for my own use.

Cubase came on a 720K floppy in them days.

[greenlake]

Not quite a computer, but my first programming experience was on one of these....

[doodab]

Not quite a computer, but my first programming experience was on one of these....

I had one of these bad boys. Actually I still have it

[socialworker]

Architect partner in 82 had a Macintosh. Remember working for a solicitor in 93 whose secretary had a 65 year old partner who managed to persuade him that Windows would never catch on so the office bought Word for ms dos despite my pleas. Later had an Atari with Cubase for music stuff but the novelty wore off. Have another husband now who is also an Apple fan but I refuse to be seduced and like my Samsung tablet and my trusty ancient HP pc.

[Gittins Gal]

Architect partner in 82 had a Macintosh. Remember working for a solicitor in 93 whose secretary had a 65 year old partner who managed to persuade him that Windows would never catch on so the office bought Word for ms dos despite my pleas. Later had an Atari with Cubase for music stuff but the novelty wore off. Have another husband now who is also an Apple fan but I refuse to be seduced and like my Samsung tablet and my trusty ancient HP pc.

Couldn't agree more. Samsung is now my hardware of choice.

My virtual BIL is a Mac geek and was recently showing off the fingerprint recognition security feature on his IPhone.
I thought to myself, yes, that's very clever but why the hell would I want it? And would it work when I've worn my fingers down to the bone after a good brass rubbing session in one of the local churches?