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OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

Instead of adding a comment to Jake’s post on his Ubuntu experience to-date, I thought I’d just blog my perspective.
Here’s my backstory with Apple, MSFT, Linux, and others:

Mid to late 80s: Timex Sinclair 1000… loved writing program ... Continue reading »

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  • Floyd

    11 months ago

    Right there with you in regards to programming on tape...remember the Radio Shack TRS-80? Wish I still had one, just for old time's sake.

    In fact, tape was a step up from the card batches I used in college! Gee, I'm an old bugger...
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  • Jake

    11 months ago

    All this nostalgia has me thinking about a throwback post for all the geeks out there. Maybe later today I'll put some thought behind that.
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  • Jake

    11 months ago

    We need to talk IRL about why my video drivers don't work. It doesn't make sense, unless you have NVIDIA or something else.
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  • Raimonds

    11 months ago

    I wanted to say that my first programming experience in late 80s was on Soviet home computer BK-0010 which also had a tape recorder and which you connected to standard TV set. And you needed to program either in assembler or in FOCAL language. So our beginnings were similar :)
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  • Jake

    11 months ago

    In Soviet Russia, computer programs you.
    :-)
    The tape recorder and connection to a TV seem pretty cool, compared to what we had in the 80s.

    I wasn't the hardcore hobbist Rich was, but I did my share of messing about with the Apple's in the "computer lab". Remember when a floppy disk really was floppy, and a whole game fit on it?

    Ah. Pong. I miss you.
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  • manalang

    11 months ago

    Do you still have that computer? That thing would probably sell for a pretty penny on eBay! I wish I still had my Timex Sinclair. I have fond memories hooking that up to a black and white TV and turning the volume down (no sound).
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  • Raimonds

    11 months ago

    Unfortunately not. This was not our home computer - I went to dad's work at University where I could get to this computer to do some programming couple times per week.

    Later my first Unix experience was on Russian clone of PDP-11 minicomputer where my older brother managed to install Russian clone of Unix and I could do my first C programming :) (reading K&R C language book in all capital letters as on Russian printers small Latin letters were replaced with Russian letters)

    These olden days were fun - then programming was done just by geeks who really enjoyed it :)
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