Reply to: C64

[Board Game Geek]

Do you actually work with computers? or are you a train driver?

LOL !

Yeah I've covered everything from low-level builds, server admin, to non-techie IT management, and techie IT management.

I just prefer a logical, structured approached to things and only waste time with lateral thinking when linear thinking reaches a barrier. That approach serves me well, but may not serve everyone. There's no right or wrong way IMHO.

[bogeyman]

Atari 800
Atari 130Xe <- Pressy from Ocean Software
Atari 1040ST
Amiga 1000 <- Pressy from Ocean Software
Dragon 32 <- Pressy from Mummy & Daddy
ZX81
BBC B <- Bought from proceeds of my first game

Numerous PCs (Was over the moon when I received my first 286 to run Xenix on...)

Various SGI boxes.
Numerous Sun Workstations.

Couple of Apple Macs

NeXT workstation

And no where in that line-up a basic, honest-to-god Windows box.

NeXT workstation

[bogeyman]

I bought VB3 or 4 with it but couldn't get my head around VB and modules and stuff. I suppose I liked BASIC for the fact that a program was like a set of train tracks, that started at A and went to Z, and you used GOSUBS and RETURNS to branch off then return to the main tracks.

Do you actually work with computers? or are you a train driver?

Let's not get on to polymorphism or inheritance then. My instance of Clapham Junction could be entirely different from your Clapham Junction depending on the constructor arguments we provided when we booked our respective tickets.

The only thing we can be sure of is that Clapham Junction is single-threaded and a potential bottle neck.

[Churchill]

Atari 800
Atari 130Xe <- Pressy from Ocean Software
Atari 1040ST
Amiga 1000 <- Pressy from Ocean Software
Dragon 32 <- Pressy from Mummy & Daddy
ZX81
BBC B <- Bought from proceeds of my first game

Numerous PCs (Was over the moon when I received my first 286 to run Xenix on...)

Various SGI boxes.
Numerous Sun Workstations.

Couple of Apple Macs

NeXT workstation

[Buffoon]

Made my own from a Motorola 6800 evaluation kit (with 1k of static RAM) and then made a Compukit UK-101 with could output B&W video to your telly

Things like ZX81s were pipe-dreams in my youth!

6800 were a pipe dream in mine.

I lost my virginity to an ICL 1900. It had 16K Words (24bits) of real magnetic core memory and four tape drives, a card reader and a line printer. None of those new fangled disk or drum drives.

[ratewhore]

DP - Did you ever come out of your bedroom?

Only if the door was open. Apparently the bathroom door was opposite!!!

I had a C64 and my favourite game was jammin...

[Board Game Geek]

Atari 400 (With the membrane keyboard, and Star Raiders the cartridge game)
Atari 800XL (Where I started programming in BASIC)
Atari 520STFM (Which I used for music with the in-built MIDI port and programmed in STOS)
Atari 1040STF
then, my first PC, a P90 from Dell.

I bought VB3 or 4 with it but couldn't get my head around VB and modules and stuff. I suppose I liked BASIC for the fact that a program was like a set of train tracks, that started at A and went to Z, and you used GOSUBS and RETURNS to branch off then return to the main tracks.

Modules confused me. It was like saying the journey went from A to Z, but stations B-Y didnt necessaily exist on the journey and you called them when needed. I liked the proceedural structure of BASIC, which fitted in with my own logic and understanding of the universe.

[_V_]

DP - Did you ever come out of your bedroom?

Not until he was 37.

[sasguru]

Spectrum
c64
Sinclair QL

Still remember the thrill of the first affordable PCS.

[Clippy]

ZX80
ZX81
Spectrum 16K
Acorn Atom
Atari 400
Atari 800
Atari 130XL ??
Atari ST

Programmed them all in various flavours of BASIC and assembler.

Since then it has been PC's all the way.

DP - Did you ever come out of your bedroom?

[bogeyman]

Made my own from a Motorola 6800 evaluation kit (with 1k of static RAM) and then made a Compukit UK-101 with could output B&W video to your telly

Things like ZX81s were pipe-dreams in my youth!

[BoredBloke]

I had a zx81 and the Norwich Union bought be a nice new c64 due to a burst pipe - odd place to leave your computer on the stairs but they paid out all the same.

My borther had the Amiga 1500 (the one with the seperate monitor/base unit etc) It was great for games and battered the 386 sx25 I had bought

[Spacecadet]

Anyone still using an Atari ST? I seem to remember that they were good for music due to the midi port which meant they were being used way past most peoples expectations as there was nothing to compare at the price.

at uni (about 10 years ago) a friend of mine who was heavily into his music had an Atari ST as he could plug his Keyboards (as in music keyboards not typing keyboards) straight in for the MIDI stuff

[gingerjedi]

Anyone still using an Atari ST? I seem to remember that they were good for music due to the midi port which meant they were being used way past most peoples expectations as there was nothing to compare at the price.

[DimPrawn]

ZX80
ZX81
Spectrum 16K
Acorn Atom
Atari 400
Atari 800
Atari 130XL ??
Atari ST

Programmed them all in various flavours of BASIC and assembler.

Since then it has been PC's all the way.