1 Nov
2008
1 Nov
'08
8:40 p.m.
I'll have to echo this experience. My first (I certainly didn't own it) was an
IBM 1620 that my high school had to compute the students' schedules every day,
as they changed from day to day. Our geometry teach knew fortran, and taught a
few of us various programming languages, and we took over the machine over the
weekend for a number of months. Then we were invited not continued to use the
district's supercomputer, and our teacher got us in at the Long Beach State
computer center during some evenings. Really cool. It was there that we heard
the radio interference generated by the computer play little songs on the radio
that the admins had sitting around. That was Really Really Cool, and I was
pretty much hooked.
/ken
David Baron wrote:
Great entertaining thread filling up my mailbox :-)
My first computer, well the first I learned to use was the first desktop,
actually the whole desk .... IBM 1620. Had a fortran compiler that was
useless. Programmed in assembler, had it translating Spanish. 1963.
I worked on mainframes off and on.
FIrst I owned, a PII, later replaced with a PIII found in the trash after
everyone already had PIVs.
First sound software?Jammer and Cakewalk Express. Later graduated to Home
Studio 2002. Stuck with that in Win98. Jammer, CW Express run fine in stock
wine, Home studio might eventually work in codeweaver's version?
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