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[andrewducker]

For those that ever had a computer between 1980 and 1984, this is very funny.

(Flash animation, video)

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I switched to an Atari

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

... my dad was going to buy me a computer in 1979/1980 (I'd already written a graphics package for the Tandy TR80 Model one Level II by that point) and I was trying to choose between a Northstar (CPM with 8" floppies and *COLOUR*! and an Apple ][) but one thing didn't lead to another and my first computer ended up being a choice between a MicroProfessor (hex keypad and LED display!) or a ZX81. I went with the 81, followed by a second hand spectrum. Meanwhile my brothers went through Atari 400 and 800s.

My first programming was actually in around 1978 when my school in America was given an old Dec PDP machine and we BUILT a Heathkit Zenith terminal and bought a Decwriter paper terminal!

I worked in a hifi shop in the early/mid 80s (sixth form) selling spectrums, orics etc. and writing little demo programs for them.

So when I went to uni in 1983 it was a choice between the Atari and the Amiga (though we used BBCs as terminals to the unix network and I did a fair bit of graphics coding on them) and I went the Atari route, learned C and GEM (pre-Windows!) and eventually upgraded to a Mega ST4 with hard disk, Mac emulator cartridge, high res mono monitor etc.

And then when I went out to work, it was IBM System/38 and PCs. So I picked up a PC (about 1988) and stuck with that ever since (though I have upgraded from the 286 Tosh laptop with glowing orange screen)