Subj : Re: First Computer Experiences
To   : Bob Worm
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Mar 05 2024 06:26:00

-=> Bob Worm wrote to Kurisu <=-

 > A thread in another echo got me wondering just what everyones first
 > experiences with a "computer" in any meaningful sense was?

 BW> My first computer experience was an Atari 800XL which my dad bought for
 BW> the family - I don't think they were particularly common in the UK and
 BW> it had a floppy drive so it must have cost a good chunk of change back
 BW> in the day.

 At the West Coast Computer Faire, I saw an Atari 800 playing Star
 Raiders and was hooked on what they could be. My first experience
 programming a computer was writing BASIC on a commodore CBM 8032, and
 realizing that computers did exactly what you told them to do was
 intriguing.


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