I still have a ColecoVision.
That beats my Atari 400. I kinda wish I had kept my Atari ST, that was a oddball computer. I almost bought a used Lisa once, but I couldn't justify the money.
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Gudanov - Nov 22, 2005 5:09:35 am PST #5690 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 5:12:52 am PST #5691 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My first computer was a Commodore 64. Unless you count my Radio Shack PC-1 (The first "pocket computer" - actually, a Radio Shack-badged version of the Sharp PC-1211.) Or my TI-55 programmable scientific calculator.
Gudanov - Nov 22, 2005 5:15:34 am PST #5692 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
My first computer was my Atari 400. It was pretty fun to program too. They had a nicely detailed memory map and you just poked and peeked to make things happen. They had sprites, missiles, and all sorts of little graphic goodies in the memory map.
NoiseDesign - Nov 22, 2005 7:13:37 am PST #5693 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I also still have, and use, my HP 48SX. It still freaks people out to try to use it since it uses reverse polish notation.
Jon B. - Nov 22, 2005 8:27:29 am PST #5694 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
We still have some HP calculators with RPN here at work.
Gudanov - Nov 22, 2005 8:28:53 am PST #5695 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
I have one at home. I still use it from time to time too.
Gris - Nov 22, 2005 8:43:44 am PST #5696 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Can't you set the new HPs to use RPN if you prefer? I thought you still could.
DXMachina - Nov 22, 2005 9:27:40 am PST #5697 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It still freaks people out to try to use it since it uses reverse polish notation.
RPN is da bomb. I love my HP calculator. Sadly, even HP is moving away from it. I bought a non-RPN HP calc. not realizing, and eventually sold it to a co-worker unused.
flea - Nov 22, 2005 12:00:07 pm PST #5698 of 10003
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We have an HP 11C with RPN. I, being a humanities major, had never heard of RPN. But I learned!
NoiseDesign - Nov 22, 2005 12:40:45 pm PST #5699 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I still have fond memories of sitting in class playing Tetris on my HP 48SX. The equation editor on that thing is amazing too.