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Originally Posted by humfrz
Yep, Viet Nam era veteran.
Well, I had a head start with home computers, when I purchased my first one back in '82 for $99.95.
It was called a Timex Sinclair 1000 ...... and it was a screamer ....  Used a cassette recorder for data storage and a B&W TV for a monitor.
Anyone still with me .. ?? Anyone .. ??
OK, time to go eat my oatmeal ..... 
humfrz |
I had my start with computers around 1982 as well, but I was in 7th grade. It was a Radio Shack Model I. I think it had 4 KB of RAM, had a B&W monitor, and also used a cassette recorder for storage. For my end of the year project, I had coded a picture of a knight standing in front of a dragon, and the knight moved his sword back and forth. It was tedious work, as you basically had to draw out your design on special graph paper that had every (rectangular) pixel that the screen could display (all 128x48 of them!), then code which ones to turn on and off. Thankfully, my teacher saw it the day before the final presentation, because someone moved the huge power brick next to the tape recorder and erased my project from the cassette.
