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Discussion on: What was your first own computer?

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Eljay-Adobe

My first computer was an Apple //e, which had just been introduced, in 1983. I'm not counting the Commodore C64 computer I got in 1982, since it was a loaner, and I returned it when I bought the Apple //e.

My parents's first computer was a Commodore CBM 8032 in 1980, where I had learned to program in 6502 assembly.

The first computer I programmed on was a HP 2000 minicomputer, in HP 2000A Time-Shared BASIC, in 1976, over a 110 baud acoustic coupler modem on a Teletype Model 33, used by TIES. My first program I worked on was Oregon Trail on that machine. I didn't create Oregon Trail, it was pre-existing from 1971. I just didn't realize the changes I was making to the program was changing everyone's shared copy.

Fun fact: three of my coworkers had also worked on later incarnations of Oregon Trail at various times, when it was part of MECC.

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Andreas

Sadly I'm too young to know most of the computers you mentioned. What kind of software was Oregon Trail? A game?

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Tomas Fernandez • Edited

Yes, it's a game that has been ported to death to multiple systems:

youtube.com/watch?v=QH2aDpjBSso

If you like old stuff, check that youtuve channel, it's gold!