re: What computer do you OT Heathens use

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Oh I did learn I didnt receive the gift to be a programmer.

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I don't know how they do it. I went to computer trade school and did so well on the math assessment that they put me in the programming curriculum. I finished it, but immediately finished the networking classes as well. Programming is so boring just sitting there all day. I can't stand it.

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the world was waiting on me to develop the first computer the 70's game pong would still be a few thousand years out.

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Joe Rogan did a stand up where he asked the audience what would happen if everyone outside of that room died and they had to rebuild civilization from scratch. He says "what I want to know is, if I put you in a forest with an age, how long til I get an email?" That's always been so funny to me.

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the Radio Shack TRS-80

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First computer I can really remember using heavily was a TI-99/4A, which was a competitor to the TRS-80.



You had to use a TV as the monitor and a cassette tape player as the drive.

Can't remember what the next one was called, but it was an HP that came with a monochrome touchscreen monitor. Except the touch sensor wasn't under the screen, it just had little holes around the edge of the bezel that sensed where your finger was.

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I still have my commodore 64. Got the keyboard, monitor and printer.

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My folks threw mine out 15 years ago. Still annoyed about that.