A fascinating techy thread now emerging on Twitter is #myfirstpc - in which people talk about, well, you guessed.
It seems to have been kicked by James Governor of RedMonk, who tweeted: "ok then. here we go. my #firstPC was a TRS-80 - you had drill and solder if you wanted sound... what was your #firstPC?"
Some of the answers are quite fascinating:
Adrian Short (who has done a lot of development involving councils and RSS and mashups and all sorts): "#myfirstpc was a 48K ZX Spectrum, for which I wrote random-access file handling extensions for the Microdrive into Sinclair Basic."
Hardcore.
Matt Auckland (he's in Southampton): "Amstrad CPC 464 tape deck with green screen. Bought for the family around mid-late 80's. I learnt basic programming on it aged 6"
Jason Rogers: "Heathkit h89 that my dad and I put together, my son's= iPad 1, my dad's=lots o tubes & punchcards, his fav=Cray I."
You have to love the historic span - and the change in processing power - that those 140 characters cover.
Clint Weathers (in Niineapolis): "..was a Timex-Sinclair 1000 and 16KB pack. I wrote Sinclair for the specs and we built a 75 baud modem for it in electronics class."
OK, what, mine? First PC I used was a Commodore something-or-other on which I programmed a BASIC Space Wars game for the entertainment of classmates. (In retrospect I should have charged a quid a go. I'd have been Bill Gates.)
The first PC I actually owned? Sinclair Spectrum with 48K of RAM. I ran LISP on it. Well, I say ran. It would be truer to say that it walked.
Come on then - what's yours?
