Quote:Star Ranger4 wrote:The first computer I touched was the local community college's timeshare set-up (for a class on computer graphics). It used dumb terminals hooked to the college mainframe. I learned Basic on the TRS-80 my Junior year in college, after which I bought a Commodore 64 (w/ 300 baud modem). My college computer lab had Apple II and II+, Commodore 64, and IBM Jr. machines. All of which used 5" floppies....and yes, they really were floppy.
whippper snappers. My first (owned) computer was its predecessor, the Commodore 64.
and I'd learned basic programing on TRS 80's and occasionally the school's mainframe, which I think i've mentioned in the past used like a 300 baud Accoustic coupler. thats right, not a modem per sey, but an actual accoustic coupler you'd manually dial and then plug the handset into when the other end picked up and started the handshake protocol!
Fortunately, I never had to deal with punchcards, though many college friends did.