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  1. Commodor Pet 2001-8 by TheAwfulTruth · · Score: 1 · on What Was Your First Computer?

    http://www.gondolin.org.uk/hchof/machines/pet2001- 8.html

    It took about 8 weeks to deliver but they sent us the manual right away and I used it to learn basic and wrote 4 game programs on paper before it arrived :)

  2. Commodore PET 3032 by palad1 · · Score: 1 · on What Was Your First Computer?

    Wicked ascii art on this baby :)

    http://www.gondolin.org.uk/hchof/machines/pet3032. html

  3. The "Home Computer Museum"... by tcopeland · · Score: 4, Informative · on First Computers

    ...has a list of most of the candidates, including the Mattel Aquarius.

    No TRS-80 pics, though... odd...

  4. The "Home Computer Museum"... by tcopeland · · Score: 4, Informative · on First Computers

    ...has a list of most of the candidates, including the Mattel Aquarius.

    No TRS-80 pics, though... odd...

  5. Re:What about Acorn by meadowsp · · Score: 1 · on Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][

    Late 80s, early 90s?
    What about the Acorn Atom,BBC Micro and Electron, all from the early 80's and definately not RISC.

  6. Jupiter Ace - World's Only FORTH-Based Micro by meehawl · · Score: 4, Informative · on Collecting Classic Computers

    I have a working Jupiter Ace with a big honking 16K RamPack expansion. The world's only ever released FORTH-based micro. This machine rules! It's the machine that the designers of the Spectrum (Timex-Sinclair 2000) went on to designfor an encore, and was hardware compatible. You can think of it in terms of Jay Miner's Atari->Amiga progression. Of course, if you really want to see what it's all about why bother with emulators? You can build your own Jupiter Ace.

  7. Step into the wayback machine... by gwernol · · Score: 2 · on Does Your Debugger Sing to You?

    And they used continuous tones, or drones similar to those used by bagpipes, to indicate continuous states like loops where many nested operations may take place. "The use of a continuous tone can indicate that the program is inside the loop," said Vickers.

    Interesting. Back when I first got into computing I used a BBC Micro. This was a primitive machine by today's standards, with no fan (the 2MHz 6502 CPU didn't get hot), no disk drive of any sort, basically nothing to make any noise except the CPU. In a quiet room you could hear the processor humming. It would change pitch as a program ran - you could tell when you hit an infinite loop because the pitch would change to a continuous whine. It was actually useful - and used - for debugging. Fun days,