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Originally Posted by jcb_njb
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Yep. Actually my FIRST thoughts of having my own computer hit home when I got my very first issue of BYTE magazine (which I still have, btw) showing the Altair 8800 (
http://oldcomputers.net/altair.html). That was about the same time (1975) I first started working with computers with a little shop making small systems for small businesses. Started out putting the tables together for these computers but soon progressed to repairing the circuit boards to the component level.
Actually, I have pretty much the complete set of BYTE magazine that Connie has been "urging" me to get rid of. Probably put them up on Ebay one of these days. I've seen that first issue sell for a pretty decent penny.
Interestingly enough (not really) the first programming I actually did was with that Exidy Sorcerer I got. The ONLY programming available was Z80 Assembler, so that's what I played around with. Come to find out that it served me well pretty quickly, because when I got a floppy disk add on for that system, it didn't work, so when I took a look at the code itself, I called the guy I got it from and pointed out that his routine to write to the drive was actually calling the video write routine. Obviously he had never TESTED the thing before sending it out. And that sort of crap holds true even today....
