Comments on: My first "PC" http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2008/01/10/my-first-pc/ The technology blog of Neil Thompson Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:14:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Spoken Like a Geek - The technology blog of Neil Thompson » Museum of Computing Re-opening http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2008/01/10/my-first-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-1388 Spoken Like a Geek - The technology blog of Neil Thompson » Museum of Computing Re-opening Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:29:48 +0000 http://www.neilthompson.me.uk/2008/01/09/my-first-pc/#comment-1388 [...] by this teletype – I was hooked from the day that I saw it, aged 11. The school then acquired a Research Machines 380z, which sadly wasn’t on display yesterday but the first computer I actually owned was - the [...] [...] by this teletype – I was hooked from the day that I saw it, aged 11. The school then acquired a Research Machines 380z, which sadly wasn’t on display yesterday but the first computer I actually owned was – the [...]

]]> By: Dirk Manuel http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2008/01/10/my-first-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Dirk Manuel Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:53:44 +0000 http://www.neilthompson.me.uk/2008/01/09/my-first-pc/#comment-58 Crikey! That's the same machine I cut my teeth on as well (I think I still have a floppy for it somewhere...). Actually, it was was the first computer my school had, but the first computer I ever wrote a program for was a mainframe at some local research facility. We were too poor a school to have our own link to them, so we had to fill in coding sheets and send them off (by post), and they'd come back with a roll of punched tape, that we'd then have to send off again with a new coding sheet saying "RUN". Nearly as much fun as the CAMPUS systems at Portsmouth Poly where we had to hand-load code via the front panel... Crikey! That’s the same machine I cut my teeth on as well (I think I still have a floppy for it somewhere…). Actually, it was was the first computer my school had, but the first computer I ever wrote a program for was a mainframe at some local research facility. We were too poor a school to have our own link to them, so we had to fill in coding sheets and send them off (by post), and they’d come back with a roll of punched tape, that we’d then have to send off again with a new coding sheet saying “RUN”. Nearly as much fun as the CAMPUS systems at Portsmouth Poly where we had to hand-load code via the front panel…

]]> By: Ian Webber http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2008/01/10/my-first-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Ian Webber Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:17:35 +0000 http://www.neilthompson.me.uk/2008/01/09/my-first-pc/#comment-59 Hi Neil, found your company's website when Googling for something (can't remember what?). Your story seems very familar... I was luck when doing O'level Computer Science to have physical access to a PDP 11/3? (can't remember the exact model, I also ways thought is was /33 but there's no such model). The county computer center (just down the road from my school) had RML 380z, 480z, Apple 2 and a few BBC micros, as well as the PDP 11. I like using the PDP, the OS was RSTE and it basically did every thing using BASIC+. Yes, it did have a puch card reader - what fun! As for CESIL, did everyone who learnt this write an a simple interpreter in BASIC! What ever happend ed Emma by the way? Regards, Ian Webber. Hi Neil,

found your company’s website when Googling for something (can’t remember what?).

Your story seems very familar…

I was luck when doing O’level Computer Science to have physical access to a PDP 11/3? (can’t remember the exact model, I also ways thought is was /33 but there’s no such model).

The county computer center (just down the road from my school) had RML 380z, 480z, Apple 2 and a few BBC micros, as well as the PDP 11.

I like using the PDP, the OS was RSTE and it basically did every thing using BASIC+. Yes, it did have a puch card reader – what fun!

As for CESIL, did everyone who learnt this write an a simple interpreter in BASIC!

What ever happend ed Emma by the way?

Regards,
Ian Webber.

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