[LAU] [OT] first computer ?

[Gordon J. C. Pearce MM3YEQ]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 10:47 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> For no reason beyond boredom I decided to pester this list with an OT 
> topic or two. So, without further delay:
> 
> What was your first computer ?

Sinclair ZX81

> And for extra points:
> 
> What was the first music/sound software you used that really hooked you 
> into this making-music-with-computers fad ?

ZX Spectrum and RAM Music Machine - simple 8-bit sampler and MIDI
interface borrowed from a mate at school.  I ended up writing custom DSP
code in assembler to apply echo, distortion and filtering effects to
incoming audio.  This must have been about 20 years ago or more - I was
in 3rd year at high school, so I was probably about 13 or 14.

I also wrote a thing that triggered a couple of envelopes and output
four different squarewaves through a modified printer port on the
Spectrum, allowing me to write beepy tunes and pass the results through
a homemade filter bank and homemade tape echo.

I wish I could find those old tapes.  I wonder if I could recreate them?
Probably wouldn't be the same...

Gordon