[LAU] [OT] first computer ?

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:47:05AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:


> What was your first computer ?

BBC B. 32k ram, later expanded with 100k floppy disk. 
My loved one at the time wrote her >300 page degree
thesis on this, printed on a loaned daisywheel printer
using a driver written in BASIC. We used to set up
things to print a few tens of pages and go to see a 
movie, hoping the rattling would have finished
without a paper jam when we came back.

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

The sound chip on the same, again programmed in
BASIC. Also the parallel port which could be
made to shift out 8 bits at 1MHz, used as a
1-bit converter.

Ciao,

-- 
FA

Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica
Parma, Italia

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