This is going to seriously date me, but my first computer was a Commodore 64, used to write programs in Basic on it. 64K of memory, backup was to a cassette tape. Still have that machine. Ah yes, the early days of being a software engineer.
I had a C64 myself. I believe the C64 OS was a proprietary OS used by the Commodore 64 had no direct connection with CP/M or QDOS (which later became MS-DOS).
My Dad was a VP engineer at Burroughs, later at Computer Associates
He bought us the Commodore 64 and Texas Instruments TI99.
He explained that computer “code” was simply a language like French, Spanish, English and we only had to speak it’s language, as it were , to get it to what we want.
I didn’t use them as I found them a waste of time.
When GUI became the human interface I found computers useful, much like the introduction of the IPhone. Before it showed up i hated cell phones and now I love then because they are useful ...
Hah! noob.
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This is going to seriously date me, but my first computer was a Commodore 64, used to write programs in Basic
Same here...really took off though with turbo pascal on IBM clones in late 80s. Could go hours without a break programming.
Commodore 64 was also my first personal computer. I was working on a GCOS 8 mainframe at the time. Actually, I still work on GCOS 8 mainframes. My team just installed a GCOS 8 mainframe in the Google Cloud so it can be used by a some subcontractors in India.
The Commodore 64 was well engineered. I was able to use it to do stochastic performance modeling of software on our mainframe.