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> funny idea for an off-topic thread. i'm looking forward to other postings...<br><br>It is quite a funny thread and makes interesting reading. <br><br>First computer was the parents ZX81, programming games for my then 5 year old brother in Basic. A whole 1K of memory. Later had a Spectrum - these were the only reasonably priced systems available then. Did not program any musical stuff at the time.<br><br>First music system was using a VAX 11/70 running Unix 2.2 using C to generate downloadable wavetables to a hardware synth as an undergraduate project. The synth was 8bit 64kHz however each voice only ran at 8kHz due to the intersampling AD converters running 8 voices.<br><br>My first own system was an Amiga 500 eventually with 500K of RAM and a 20M disk using 68000 assembler code to write my own MIDI software over a homegrown MIDI adaptor from an Akai master keyboard to different sound modules.<br><br>Then along came Linux with the 0.99 kernels so bought a P3-133 system.<br><br>Have only ever really used my own audio programes so the closest I get to the last question would be a C compiler.<br><br>Regards, nick.<br><br /><hr />Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger <a href='http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline' target='_new'>Get it now! </a></body>
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