First Computers (was Re: [SunRescue] Yay, I don't feel...)

[Clay Mellender]

In 1977 my uncle handed down a "Baby1". 6502 CPU w/4k (YES, k!) of ram.
It ran Microsoft tiny basic, which has the distinction of being the only
piece of commercial software written by Bill Gates. It used 1.2k of ram.
There was no storage options that I was aware of. Whenever I wanted to
play "Lunar Lander" I had to key in all 140 lines of basic to play. I
have never even seen a reference top this machine anywhere, or been able
to find out who was the manufacturer. It was one HELL of a toy for a 9
year old though.

Clay

Matthew Haas wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >
> > > my dad's work (I can picture the Sun screensaver to this day). My first
> > > machine was a Commodore 128, I still own it... And about 60 or more other
> > > machines...
> >
> > I started out at age 9 with a TI-99/4A.  GOt it 2 months before they
> > quit making them. 8-)
> >
> 
> While we're on this trend- what was everyone's first computer? Do you
> still own it?? Still use it?
> 
> My very first computer was a Commodore VIC-20... I was too young at the
> time to truly appreciate it... I had a game cartridge of some number/math
> game that I remember playing endlessly.
> 
> Then I got an XT that I played with for a few years and then got upgraded
> to a 386SX (kept the CGA monitor from the XT)..
> 
> I got bored with 4 colors and a mono PC speaker, so I left and played with
> the 8-bit Atari machines for a couple years (XE Game Machine, then
> upgraded to the 130XE! 128K of RAM!!)... I could really play Star Raiders
> with this setup :) And I still own all my Ataris :)
> 
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