Re: [LAU] [OT] first computer ?

Dave Phillips wrote: first "contact" was a triumph-adler (german manufacturer of typewriters, sewing machines, and, incidentally, computers) machine running cp/m on a zilog z80, at the primary school where my father worked. first machine i really knew how to use (still not my own, but my father's) was an 8086 with 640k ram at 8 mhz (or 4.77 when i was annihilating my father's tetris record - he never found out how to underclock the thing :-D) first audio machine i used many years later (1998, i think) was an sgi indy running irix, with snd on it. first machine i actually owned was a dual p2/350mhz with 256m ram and a 4g scsi drive (yay!). i upped it over the years to a dual 800 p3 with 1 gig ram and phased it out after seven years. snd and its ability to display fft graphs. what a great learning tool. apart from that, i used it to edit live recordings. :-D funny idea for an off-topic thread. i'm looking forward to other postings... -- jörn nettingsmeier home://germany/45128 essen/lortzingstr. 11/ http://spunk.dnsalias.org phone://+49/201/491621 Kurt is up in Heaven now.