Where did you start programming?

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Where did you start programming?

Spectrum & alike
18
8%
Spectrum & alike
18
8%
Atari
8
4%
Atari
8
4%
Amiga
11
5%
Amiga
11
5%
Dos
13
6%
Dos
13
6%
Windows
17
8%
Windows
17
8%
Linux
1
0%
Linux
1
0%
Unix
2
1%
Unix
2
1%
None of the above ;)
41
18%
None of the above ;)
41
18%
 
Total votes: 222

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1985 MSX1: Basic & ASM :)

64 K RAM, 16 K VRAM, and you didn't need more XD.
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1982 (83??) Spectrum 16K, 16 colours, Basic & ASM...
really you need more??? ;)
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Post by BalrogSoft »

I started playing with 9 or 10 years old with spectrum basic, but i really start with Amiga two years after with Amos(i voted Amiga, because i really start programming my own code with Amiga), i played a little with other languages like 680x0 asm, pascal, blitz basic, c, and Pure Basic, the best!
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Back in 1980/81 (I was thirteen years old) we had a science teacher bring in his own personal TRS 80 Model I Level II basic computer. The TRS 80 had a whopping 4k of ram, and we stored our programs on casette tapes.

I ate that thing up. When the other kids were going to lunch, I would stay behind in the class room and write games. The teacher let me take it home over the XMas holiday break.

I came back with two casette tapes full of games, and other other programs I'd written. I even taught myself Z80 assembly language so that I could make my games run faster.

Then I got a paper route saved money and bought my very own computer. It was a Timex Sinclair 1000 in kit form. My father and I put it together, I soon bought the 16k ram pack, a Z80 assembler program, and was in heaven.

The next computers I owned were:

Vic 20
Commodore 64
CoCo 3
Amiga 500
PC

I still own the Timex Sinclair 1000. It's in a display case that I made, and keep on my desk at work. It's always important to remember your roots.

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It started with Apple II, C64 and Amiga, but no *real* programming. Just fooling around. I used Coherent unix on the PC (386sx 16Mhz 1Mb ram) to program a Finite Element calculation program which i used to calculate the wacky design i made during my study architecture http://www.archiprix.nl/nl/1996/zeppelin.html after that i was lost hung my future as a brilliant architect in the trees and became a programmer...never regretted it.

BTW, fellows, reading you're posts, we're dinosaurs!
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TI-57 programmable calculator ('coz I couldn't afford a TI59... :D ), sometime mid-1970-ies.

Is there a PureBasic 'Over Forty' Club somewhere? :D
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Started with batch scripts (bat files) on XP. (not language, but...)
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I can't believe no-one's mentioned BBCs or Acorns of some variety? Perhaps they're all too recent for you all - post 1980 ;p
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My first programs were on HP9825 in 1975 !

Was the first table computers existing. The language was HPL a basic like.
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Started on a Zx81 with the classic ..

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10 PRINT "NAME";
20 GOTO 10
RUN
Played with quite a few 8/16bit machines ...

Spectrum 48k/QL
Commodore Vic20/C64/C16/Pet
Msx (Toshiba)
Oric1
BBC Model A/B
Amstrad 464/6128
Acorn Electron
Amiga 500/1200
Pee Cee

I picked up most programming methods from computer listings in magazines such as Input.

The worst experience I had was typing in a 16K frogger game for the Zx81.
At the time I had a 16K ram expansion attached.
After spending hours getting the code entered I accidently knocked the exansion pack and **POOOP** ... Lost EVERYTHING
Doh!
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Commodore Vic 20
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Post by zapman* »

I can't believe no-one's mentioned BBCs or Acorns of some variety? Perhaps they're all too recent for you all - post 1980 ;p
YES !!! Atom Acorn was my first computer ! I began ASM on a TRS 80 in the same time.
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Post by kwag »

Late 1981, on an Atari 800 :D
First, Atari BASIC, then followed by Atari Assembler.
Then Borland's Turbo Pascal, then FORTH, then C (got stuck there for a very long time :lol:) and currently Python and PureBasic.
I'll stick to the last two for as long as I can ;)

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pdp-11 BASIC
http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/Ima ... punch.jpeg
saved/loaded my programs with paper tape. :wink:
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Post by aaron »

Systems like this:
apple II -> Vic-20 -> C64 -> Amiga 500 -> 386 -> Pentium -> embedded systems -> P4/Athlon

The languages went like this:
basic -> assembly -> C -> purebasic

Ah.... the circle of life. :D

All in all, the embedded systems are most fun to program for.... complete and absolute control over the system... no OS, no funny business. :lol:
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