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

[Ken Hansen]

Mr. Gates had a reputation for reviewing the code others wrote at MS in the
early years (TRS-80/Apple II days). Programmers would come in to work in the
morning and Mr. Gates would be waiting  explain to them what they were doing
wrong/how to improve their code.

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clay Mellender" <claym at mellender.org>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: First Computers (was Re: [SunRescue] Yay, I don't feel...)


> 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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