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Offline Rodomoc

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Re: My computing resume...
« on: January 24, 2012, 08:59:59 PM »
After table tennis on the tv screen it was a Timex Sinclair. 1mhz, 1k ram, membrane keyboard, etc... This was short lived and then it was Pet 4032's at school. Did Atari 400/800, Apple-II-IIe in smaller degrees. Then a C64 at home. After that it was a 100% Commodore focus. Much programming on the C64 (total junky basically). Went to college, computing there was on a VAX something or another, and occasional PC. After college it was an XT PC clone. Built all my own PC's from parts (still do actually). At about the time I had a 486 machine I picked up a used A500. Just to play games and tinker with. At the time some of those A500 action games rivalled or beat what was on a PC. Took a MAC turn for a bit because that is all the company I worked for used; Classic, SE, SE30, various powermacs, blah blah... (oh and a IIGS at the same place. Nice machine at the time...) Then all PC for a long time at home. And then Amigas as a hobby. 500's, 1000's, 2000's, 3000's. Never had an AGA machine yet. Now it is an expanded A3000 only occasionally, mostly UAE based emulation, a brief stint with MorphOS on an Efika, and occasional glimpses into Icaros. Waiting for Morph3 powerbook support. Will jump on that ship more completely then and probably fade out of 68K to a large degree. Professionally I run a PC because the 3D Cad runs on it exclusively. Personally, I still think better with paper and pencil a lot of the time. :)
 

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Re: My computing resume...
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2012, 02:14:40 PM »
Quote from: Michele31415;677376
I got my start in computing way back in college in 1973 when I took a course in Fortran, programming the school's IBM 360/65.  I spent many hours punching cards, dropping them off at the counter and hanging around waiting for a fanfold printout that hopefully didn't say "ABEND" because I had left out a comma somewhere.


Ah yes Fortran in college....Fortunately for me they had phased out punch cards a few years before I took the class. So program entry into the mainframe was via this gigantic dec printer (not sure if this is the right phrase for this device). A big dot matrix printer thingy with a keyboard basically. There were no monitor screens to look at, the paper on the printer was the monitor basically.