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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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machasm
on 03/06/2024, 00:37:34 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (50) ,vapourminer (5) ,Hueristic (1) ,bitcoinPsycho (1) ,AlcoHoDL (1)
First PC was a sinclair ZX81 (If you could call it a PC}. Ridiculous membrane keyboard and 1K RAM. You could get a 16K RAM expansion pack which plugged in the back but would often glitch when you pressed too hard on the keyboard.
For recording your programs you needed to use a conventional cassette recorder and tune the volume to the programs you would write. Awful in so many ways but was a lot of fun for a while.
It ran BASIC (Beginners All Symbolic Instruction Code).
I did use an early 8080 machine at school where we had to program it in hexadecimal, tedious to say the least but you learned alot.
Followed that with a BBC Micro and then a Vic 20 and commodore 64.
Wound up going through an Apple phase with an Apple classic all the way through the Apples as they lost their way untill eventually making the switch to PC on a celeron 300 and learned about overclocking.
Prices for upgrades on Macintoshes were always far more expensive than equivalent upgrades to Intel based PCs and that eventually pissed me off enough to make the switch.
First experience with the web must have been around 93? First dial-up modem was a 9600 baud rate US robotics modem (mainly used to download a porn image which would take at least 15 mins if not longer)
It was an exciting time with breakneck speed in innovations.