True. But TBH all PCs from the time sucked too. We started to get decent performance wise 10 or 15 years ago. Before that only workstations were good but the cost was surreal.
What was that computer you learned BASIC on? My was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
TI99/4A with speech module, extended basic cartridge and cassette storage. Spent hours typing in code from magazines expecting some amazing game only to be disappointed. lol Spent more time playing Tunnels of Doom, Parsec, Dig Dug, Bigfoot etc. Great games, but the programming aspect just didn't draw me in. Had more fun making the speech module say rude things.
Loved playing around with my buddy's Commodore 64 though. Peeking and Poking various addresses to cause weird sounds, video corruption, crashes etc.
Mine was a Timex-Sinclair, a similar US model after Timex got it. It was actually in the watch case at a department store. I also took some BASIC classes at the community college on TRS-80, can't remember which model, except it did have 5" floppy drives.
I got a lot out of the Radio Shack Color Computer. It was much more versatile than the IBM PCs. You could hook it up to a MIDI keyboard to play it, or to a shortwave radio to download and print out weather satellite photos and Wirephotos from news originators. With the PC, you had to buy a separate card for MIDI and another separate sound card to record from the radio.
My first PC compatible was a Tandy 3000NL in 1989. It was very useful, but only had a 20MB hard drive which cost over $700 extra.
Cool! A few years later I was gifted a PC/XT 8088 clone with 1mb RAM and a crappy 20mb segate HDD that worked only when the weather was good lol. With that I learned Pascal, C and Clipper. I still miss TP.
True. But TBH all PCs from the time sucked too. We started to get decent performance wise 10 or 15 years ago. Before that only workstations were good but the cost was surreal.
What was that computer you learned BASIC on? My was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
LOL I learned BASIC on a Commodore 64.
TI99/4A with speech module, extended basic cartridge and cassette storage. Spent hours typing in code from magazines expecting some amazing game only to be disappointed. lol Spent more time playing Tunnels of Doom, Parsec, Dig Dug, Bigfoot etc. Great games, but the programming aspect just didn't draw me in. Had more fun making the speech module say rude things.
Loved playing around with my buddy's Commodore 64 though. Peeking and Poking various addresses to cause weird sounds, video corruption, crashes etc.
Mine was a Timex-Sinclair, a similar US model after Timex got it. It was actually in the watch case at a department store. I also took some BASIC classes at the community college on TRS-80, can't remember which model, except it did have 5" floppy drives.
I got a lot out of the Radio Shack Color Computer. It was much more versatile than the IBM PCs. You could hook it up to a MIDI keyboard to play it, or to a shortwave radio to download and print out weather satellite photos and Wirephotos from news originators. With the PC, you had to buy a separate card for MIDI and another separate sound card to record from the radio.
My first PC compatible was a Tandy 3000NL in 1989. It was very useful, but only had a 20MB hard drive which cost over $700 extra.
Cool! A few years later I was gifted a PC/XT 8088 clone with 1mb RAM and a crappy 20mb segate HDD that worked only when the weather was good lol. With that I learned Pascal, C and Clipper. I still miss TP.