Where did you start programming?

El_Choni · Post by **El_Choni** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 2:53 pm

1985 MSX1: Basic & ASM

64 K RAM, 16 K VRAM, and you didn't need more XD.

Saboteur · Post by **Saboteur** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:54 pm

1982 (83??) Spectrum 16K, 16 colours, Basic & ASM...
really you need more???

BalrogSoft · Post by **BalrogSoft** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 6:42 pm

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!

CoderLaureate · Post by **CoderLaureate** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 2:26 am

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.

-Jim

smanschot · Post by **smanschot** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:22 am

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!

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:57 pm

TI-57 programmable calculator ('coz I couldn't afford a TI59...

), sometime mid-1970-ies.

Is there a PureBasic 'Over Forty' Club somewhere?

Bonne_den_kule · Post by **Bonne_den_kule** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:39 pm

Started with batch scripts (bat files) on XP. (not language, but...)

tinman · Post by **tinman** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 6:20 pm

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

fweil · Post by **fweil** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 7:11 pm

My first programs were on HP9825 in 1975 !

Was the first table computers existing. The language was HPL a basic like.

syntax error · Post by **syntax error** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 10:51 pm

Started on a Zx81 with the classic ..

Code: Select all

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!

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 1:22 am

Commodore Vic 20

zapman* · Post by zapman* » Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:58 am

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.

kwag · Post by **kwag** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 4:13 am

Late 1981, on an Atari 800

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

) and currently Python and PureBasic.
I'll stick to the last two for as long as I can

-Karl

TronDoc · Post by **TronDoc** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 12:44 pm

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

Joe

aaron · Post by **aaron** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:31 pm

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.

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