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August 10, 2001

Old Computer Memories: After now

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After now reading all the comments made to the previously blogged ZDNet story on people's first computers, I feel compelled to reminice about my first computers.

My first machine was a TI-99/4a which my Dad bought for the family in 1982. We hooked it up to a 13" color TV, since a monitor was around $500, and used a Panasonic cassette recorder for data storage. I quickly learned basic and spent hours upon hours programming my own games and other software. About a year later we got an expansion unit, which was this massive steel box which would fit the floppy drive and expansion cards. We added 32kb of memory, bringing the total system to 48kb, and a speech synthesizer, which I think we got free by buying 6 cartridges. Remember cartridges? All the home computers of the time, including the Commodores, TRS-80s and Ataris used cartridges for a lot of software.

Actually using floppies and not running out of memory made me feel like I was flying high. The expansion also allowed me to start screwing around with assembly language. For some strange reason, out of the box a user could only program in Basic. In fact, you couldn't even load software written in anything besides basic unless it was on a cartridge. The worst thing about this was that TI-Basic was sloooow. In its infinite wisdom, Texas Instruments, had decided that all software to be written for its computer would be in an interpreted language called GPL (Graphics Programming Language, I believe), that was closer to system level than Basic, but still interpreted. And then the Basic was written in GPL. So that meant that every Basic program was double-interpreted, all at a blazing 1.5 Mhz or so.

TI corrected this situation with their Extended Basic, which included machine language subroutines in addition to the ability to add your own, but I think the damage was done by then. All the other major home computers had relatively more open architectures and so software and game developers could more easily write software for them than for the TI. It was too bad, too, since the TI was a 16-bit machine, more like the IBM's 8088, rather than an 8-bit machine, like most home computers. Had the TI not been so hobbled by GPL and TI's wanting to keep software development proprietary it really could have given Atari and Commodore a run for their money.

I used the TI through to about mid-high school when I got a Commodore 64--I think I was 15 or 16, around 1986-7. Although in raw power the C-64 was a step backwards, more of my friends had the C-64, and so free pirated software was much more readily available, as I stacked up a collection of floppies full of games. I added a modem to the C-64 and got into BBSs, which for you youngins, were the precursor to the Internet. I also got a subscription to an online service called Quantum, which I think eventually turned into AOL. I'd been using a computer for schoolwork since the 6th grade, so I almost never handwrote anything. In 1988 I added GEOS to my C-64, which gave it a graphical environment--maybe even some rudimentary multitasking (I can't remember). Not bad for an 8-bit machine, running at 1 Mhz with 64 KB of RAM. I used my joystick like a mouse, and using the GEOS apps I printed reports and things like cassette liners that rivaled stuff a friend of mine made using his relatively new Mac (first generation, all-in-one unit with black&white monitor -- I used to give him a hard time b/c my C-64 had color).

In 1989 I went to college and decided I needed a real computer, so I used my graduation money to buy an IBM P/S2 Model 30-286 (8 Mhz). It came with Windows 1.0 preinstalled, a whole megabyte of memory, a 20 MB hard drive, and VGA graphics on a 14" color monitor. I think it cost somewhere around $2500 (compared to my C-64 which cost about $200 by the time I bought one). I found Windows 1.0 pretty useful for anything besides the Paint program, and mostly used MS Word 4.0 for DOS and other DOS apps. I did upgrade to Windows 3.0 when it came out in '91, but it was kind of a dog, given that I still only had 1 MB of memory. When I got the PS/2 I was the only person on my dorm floor with a computer, and I had one of the most powerful computers around altogether, since most other students were using PC clones with 8086s or even still using C-64s, though Commodore was getting into financial trouble by then--I think that's why I didn't bother with an Amiga.

I used the PS/2 throughout college and into my first couple of years of grad school. I even installed a 14.4 modem in 1993 so I could dial into the University and get my e-mail and surf Gopher at a decent speed. (My college didn't have Internet or dial-in until after I graduated).

The PS/2 was retired in 1995 when I upgraded to a homebrew PC running an AMD 486 clone at 100 Mhz. AFter that I've spent a lot of time using and upgrading my machines, but somehow they lack that fun and magic of my old machines (I think maybe the TI and C-64 are still at my parents' house). Oh, the (kinda) good ol' days...

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