Where did you start programming?

[griz]

Vic 20 ... too many to list since then so I won't bother. I have to say the Atari VCS got me hooked on the computer idea initially.

[KarLKoX]

My first attempt was on the Amiga with the Amos language in january 1993, just after i saw the "State Of The Art" demo from Spaceballs :roll:

[blueznl]

> i just want to know where you started at

I started with the VIC-20, but got serious with the Commodore 64.

scary, that means we got something in common... fortunately, only the vic20 part (pfew)

the ones that i owned (own):

vic20 -> zx spectrum -> atari 8 bit 400 / 800 / 600xl -> amiga 500 / amiga 2000 -> pc 386dx40 486dx2/66 p3-800 xp2500... on the side sharp mz800 / brother xxx (tandy trs80 clone) / dec alpha (cannibalized)

the ones i used somewhere somewhen:

excidy sorcerer (gruelsome memories of pip), apple ii, apple macintosh, zx80 / zx81, ql (horrible machine), c64 (never liked it much except for playing commandos ), atari st's, and all sorts of pc's

languages:

commodore basic (vic / 64 / 128), atari basic, turbobasic (atarixl), amigabasic (brrr), quickbasic, gwbasic, gfabasic for amiga / dos / windows, purebasic, a bit of c, turbo pascal, assembly 6502 / 6800 / 6802 / 68000, dbase II, pilot (who remembers that!) and some other stuff that escaped my faulty memory...

[Jose]

ZX Sepctrum, way back

[viiartz]

VZ200 with very basic Basic!

[ts-soft]

Oh, very old thread
Apple II compatible with Integerbasic.

//edit: more complete
TI99/4A
some MSX-Computer from Philips, Sharp ...
ATARI 800XL, ATARI 520 STM
Tulip PC I386 (MS-Windows 3.11)
from Pentium 75 to AMD Athlon X2

Integerbasic, Applesoftbasic, 6502 ASM, GFA-Basic, GWBasic, VisuellBasic 4 - 6,
Profan², Delphi 3, PureBasic, XProfan, eBasic ...

[Demivec]

Oh, very old thread

I'll post also so you don't look so silly.

The first: Atari 400/800 -> Atari Basic in 1982.

In addition: Atari 800/1200XL, Atari 130XE, Commodore 64, Pet CBM, HP 41CV (calculator), IBM PC, Apple Franklin, AS/400.

Languages: Commodore Basic, TurboBasic XL (Atari), Action! (Atari), Forth, Cobol (AS/400), assembly 6502, Pascal, ms-Dos batch files, gwBasic, quickBasic, VisualBasic for Applications, PureBasic.

[USCode]

Point4 IRIS BusinessBasic!

[luis]

Where ? At my home, without a computer, using a block notes and a pen.

[jack]

actually, I find it easier to write down an algorithm on paper than to go and hammer out code.

[skywalk]

What is this "paper" you speak of?
Does it have good battery life?

[viiartz]

I had forgotten!
-Some BASIC with punch cards on an IBM Micro thingy (I think!)
-Basic on a TRS-80 (Tandy Radio Shack) http://goo.gl/Y7agV
-Pascal at college (TAFE here in Australia) on a VAX mainframe
-Basic, Machine Code, CHIP-8 on a VZ200 http://goo.gl/YL7IM
-Basic on a Sega SC-3000 http://goo.gl/ybstA
-AMOS (visula basic like), GFA basic on Amiga 500
-GW Basic, Basica, Turbo Pascal, VB, Delphi on a PC

[glomph]

1. Sharp pocket computer (1 kb mem), inbuild basic and learnd it.
Commondore 2000(?), a business mashine with floppy disks and Typewriter (loud!)
Epson Handheld, inbuild Microdrive, printer
Apple II (my god, the editor!)
Commondore VC 64 (peek and poke,uff)
Amstrad (cant stand the radiation)
Atari ST (Great! Love it!)
Dos (not useable)
Windows 3.1 (useable)
Today:
Win7 (fine)+ MacOs (works)

Regards
glomph

[MachineCode]

I started with a VIC20 and then C64. I remember my grandmother asking me what I could do on the computer, so I quickly wrote this for her and ran it:

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10 PRINT "NAME"
20 GOTO 10

I was so proud of it (I was 10?) but she just looked at me as though I were an idiot. I still can see her disappointed face to this day. I think that's why I'm such a perfectionist when I code these days; I want my apps to be uber-cool and do things that people actually want. She did me a favor, I guess.

[Shield]

I kinda missed out on the "old days" (maybe that's why I like to attend demoparties every once in a while ).

My first programming steps were on Windows 2000 / XP (yes, so uncool. ). I was new to all the stuff
and tested VB6 (meh) with a friend but soon I bought PB because it looked so fancy and shiny in that magazine
where it was praised to be the single most awesome thing in existance. Turned out it was an absolutely crappy and outdated
PB version that came nothing close to what it was advertised for (I know many other people here bought that too).

So I decided to give it another try and bought...what was it? Something like PB 3.93?
It was the right decision...if I didn't do that it would have been very likely that I abandoned programming altogether.


Anyway, seems like not everyone can have a "nerdy" past in the old days, even though I like to pretend
I was able to fool around on a C64.