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post #1 of 9
3/1/05 at 1:10pm
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Check out these ads...especially look at the Tandy (aka Radio Shack) ads, one featuring a very young Bill Gates.

http://www.1000bit.net/adverts.asp

And here's my first PC! I loved my TI. I wrote my first program on that puppy.

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post #2 of 9
3/1/05 at 1:16pm
One of those "lap-size portables".

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post #3 of 9
3/1/05 at 1:28pm
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Originally Posted by Martianman
I loved my TI. I wrote my first program on that puppy.
The TI - 99/4A was my first pc as well, and I wrote many, many programs in BASIC for it, saved to a cheap cassette recorder.

Memmmmm-o-riiiieeeeees....
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post #4 of 9
3/1/05 at 1:39pm
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Originally Posted by Martianman
Check out these ads...especially look at the Tandy (aka Radio Shack) ads, one featuring a very young Bill Gates.
And Bill Bixby! Anyone else remember the Tandy comics Radio Shack would hand out?
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post #5 of 9
3/1/05 at 1:46pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer
The TI - 99/4A was my first pc as well, and I wrote many, many programs in BASIC for it, saved to a cheap cassette recorder.

Memmmmm-o-riiiieeeeees....

Good lord you're old!
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post #6 of 9
3/1/05 at 2:43pm
http://cm.math.uiuc.edu/~staffin/1984macintro.mov

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post #7 of 9
3/1/05 at 2:52pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer
The TI - 99/4A was my first pc as well, and I wrote many, many programs in BASIC for it, saved to a cheap cassette recorder.
And I remember how ecstatic I was when I discovered "Compute!" magazine. It had lots of games and applications in it, and they were all written in Basic, and they tried to cover most of the Basic flavors, like TI Basic, Commodore/Vic 20 basic, and Tandy Basic. That's where I started learning about programming, by typing in those 100-line or so Basic programs.

From the Tandy/Bill Gates ad:

"Our newest software product, MS-Windows, is an integrated windowing environment. It will let personal computer users combine individual programs into a powerful, integrated system. ...Our engineers were quite impressed with processing speed of the Tandy 2000's 80186 microprocessor, too."

"Tandy 2000 systems start at $2999..."
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post #8 of 9
3/1/05 at 3:36pm
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Originally Posted by Martianman

From the Tandy/Bill Gates ad:

"Our newest software product, MS-Windows, is an integrated windowing environment. It will let personal computer users combine individual programs into a powerful, integrated system. ...Our engineers were quite impressed with processing speed of the Tandy 2000's 80186 microprocessor, too."

"Tandy 2000 systems start at $2999..."
Speaking of Gates, I also remember this clip which never aired due to legal issues

watch the video
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post #9 of 9
3/1/05 at 8:41pm
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Originally Posted by Nelson
Speaking of Gates, I also remember this clip which never aired due to legal issues

watch the video
the ironic thing is he's now a partial owner of apple.
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