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Death and old calculators/computers...

Yesterday evening, for some reasons, I was thinking about death and how I started to know about the computing world... I thought "Tomorrow, I'll see if I can find pictures of those things I've been using since I was 13 year old".

  1. Apple II
    Learned basic. Hangman must have been the first "useful' program I wrote.
  2. Commodore machines (PET and CBM): I wrote a ping-pong game in 6502.
  3. TI-33 and TI-57: used at high school.
  4. Sharp PC-1211: high school and cheating at the University entrance exam. Mathematics and science were the perfect domains to put my Basic and assembly knowledge at good use. If you see what I mean...
  5. Sharp PC-1500A and the Sharp PC-1600 (4 lines of text!!!)
  6. IBM PC-XT
  7. ...

I'm surprised to find that many sites relating to old calculator and computers.

Bonne journée / Buen día / Have a nice day.

Published Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:37 PM by yvesdolc
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# re: Death and old calculators/computers...

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:10 AM by szurgot
Old computers/platforms never die, they just move onto the internet, and get emulation software.

# re: Death and old calculators/computers...

Thursday, March 30, 2006 4:18 AM by David Brabant
Nostalgia for the good old days, when we were squatting computers at the Computer Land Shop rue des Clarisses, eh? Feel that way too, sometimes.

# re: Death and old calculators/computers...

Saturday, April 01, 2006 2:24 PM by yvesdolc
Indeed David, indeed. Without this chain, I'm not sure I would be here today. Best of luck! À bientôt.
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